cosmopolitan

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
adjective growing or occurring in many parts of the world
adjective composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; - T.B. Macaulay

From cosmopolit(e) + -an. Compare metropolitan and megalopolitan.

I believe I am truly cosmopolitan. — Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Persis had had flirtations of cosmopolitan variety. — What Will People Say? A Novel, Rupert Hughes
Asian supremacy, cosmopolitan regeneration, and theocratic equality, all gradually disappeared. — Tancred; Or, The New Crusade, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

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