cosmopolite

noun

1. One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person.

   “First drink a health, this solemn night, / A health to England, every guest: / That man’s the best cosmopolite / Who loves his native country best.”

   “Prince Gortschakoff has spoken of the elements of disturbance and the revolutionary cosmopolites of Europe, and has asked France and England and Austria to repress their activity. Well, my Lords, no doubt as carrion birds are drawn by instinct to the battle-field, so, wherever there is disturbance, the moral and political vultures of Europe will flock to take part in it”

   “The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.”

   “He was a pale, lean, acute, undeveloped little cosmopolite, who liked intellectual gymnastics and who, also, as regards the behaviour of mankind, had noticed more things than you might suppose, but who nevertheless had his proper playroom of superstitions, where he smashed a dozen toys a day.”

   “[…] the fifties were bad years for the Jews. The campaign against the "rootless cosmopolites" was in full swing […]”

2. (Canada, US, dated)The butterfly painted lady (Vanessa cardui).

   “The painted lady butterfly […] has been seen around towns throughout North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Africa. It's known on every continent except Antarctica, and it's even found on islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. […] Not surprisingly, the painted lady is known in some circles as the cosmopolite.”

3. A plant found more or less everywhere in the world.

adj

1. Of or relating to cosmopolites; cosmopolitan.

   “International necessities are rapidly breaking down old prejudices and conservatisms, while developing cosmopolite feeling.”

   “The cosmopolite glitter of the Ballets Russes enjoyed considerable compass—a transoceanic range that quickly credentialed both the composer and the choreographer.”

2. Oriented, exposed to or open to ideas and influences outside one's own social system or group.

   “There was no middle course for Richard's comrades between high friendship or absolute slavery. He was deficient in those cosmopolite habits and feelings which enable boys and men to hold together without caring much for each other; and, like every insulated mortal, he attributed the deficiency, of which he was quite aware, to the fact of his possessing a superior nature.”

3. Distributed throughout the world; having a wide geographical distribution.

   “If, however, we consider the Australian dingo as a native animal, we might class the genus Canis as cosmopolite, but the wild dogs of South America are now formed into separate genera by some naturalists.”