COSMOPOLITAN; COSMOPOLITE

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

2.
a.

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

3.
a.

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.