{ Cos`mo*pol"i*tan (-p?l"?-tan), Cos*mop"o*lite (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), } n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;; ko`smos the world + &?;&?;&?; citizen, &?;&?;&?; city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

{ 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.

Cos*mop"o*lite (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n. See Cosmopolitan.

• One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person
  
• (US) the butterfly, painted lady