— cosmopolitanism , n. — cosmopolitanly , adv.
/koz'meuh pol"i tn/ , adj.
1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.
4. Bot. , Zool. widely distributed over the globe.
n.
5. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
[ 1835-45; COSMOPOLITE + -AN ]
Syn. 1. sophisticated, urbane, worldly.
Ant. 1. provincial, parochial.