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cosmopolitan

adjective
 
 /ˌkɑz·məˈpɑl·ɪ·tən/

Definition

containing people and things from many different parts of the world, or having experience of many different places and things: a cosmopolitan city Gwen’s a very cosmopolitan young woman.
(Definition of cosmopolitan adjective from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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