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Context: I want to indicate people who keep travelling around the world (sometimes as part of their jobs and sometimes to volunteer during a crisis) without settling down at a single country.

I came across terms like Global Citizens / World Citizens, but I want to know if I can use Globalite, albeit as a neologism, such that it will be analogous with Localite

Merriam-Webster does define localite, but not globalite

localite (noun)

a native or resident of the locality under consideration

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I think as a single word cosmopolite may convey the idea:

  • a person familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures.

In this extract, for instance, it is used as an antonym of localite:

  • Cosmopolite channels are relatively more important at the knowledge stage, and localite channels are relatively more important at the persuasion stage in the innovation- decision ...

and also here:

  • Information Seeking Behaviour of Livestock Farmers Sources of Information It is evident from Table 6.9, that majority of the respondents belonged to medium category in acquiring information from personal-localite, personal-cosmopolite and ...

The term "localite", though present in dictionaries, in not a common one, and I'd avoid using "globalite". World/global citizen are good options.

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  • Thanks. I was aware of cosmopolitan. Not sure how I missed this...
    – BiscuitBoy
    Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 13:06

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