1. [n]  a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
2. [adj]  of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
3. [adj]  composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"
4. [adj]  (ecology) growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

Cosmopolitan
A long-time bartender writes about his experiences in bars around New York City, beginning with his influence on the rise of the now-famous Cosmopolitan. Toby Cecchini found that his time behind the bar gave him an unsurpassed view of human nature at its most revealing, and he writes here about what he has learned over the years about people, but also about the sometimes annoying, sometimes infuriating, sometimes just plain wearying daily round of the guy who makes the drinks.

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1. \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite
   

2. \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \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.