cosmopolitan
koz-muh-POL-ih-tunadjMeaning familiar with many countries and cultures; worldly
Memory hook COSMO = WORLD: a citizen of the world. Aunt Lin’s suitcase is covered with stickers from a dozen countries, and she greets everyone in their own language: she is cosmopolitan.
The cosmopolitan city had restaurants from forty countries on a single street.
In context Having lived in six countries and learned four languages, Aunt Lin was truly cosmopolitan, at ease in any crowd anywhere in the world.
Similar worldly, sophisticated, international, broad-minded
Opposite parochial, provincial, insular
From Greek kosmopolites, “citizen of the world”: kosmos (world) + polites (citizen).