Dictionary entry

Cosmopolitan (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Cos′mo‐pol″i‐tan, Cos‐mop″o‐lite, } a. 1. 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.

2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.

R. Owen.