as in sophisticated
having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience
a college student who now seems conspicuously cosmopolitan after spending his junior year abroad
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as in sophisticate
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
as someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seemed very much the cosmopolitan to her old classmates
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Recent Examples of cosmopolitan
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
Las Terrenas, a fishing village that has become a cosmopolitan destination, is ideal for those seeking local cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere, with small beachfront bars and restaurants.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
As the clientele became more pedestrian, flying felt less cosmopolitan.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
Las Terrenas, a fishing village that has become a cosmopolitan destination, is ideal for those seeking local cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere, with small beachfront bars and restaurants.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
Noun
In that series, Michelle Pfeiffer’s cosmopolitan Stacy Clyburn learns to embrace the American West after a tragedy forces her to leave New York City for the Madison River Valley in central Montana.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
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Their 50-acre estate in the center of Rutherford is home to Bordeaux varieties, including the Malbec used to make this sophisticated rosé, which proffers a nose of raspberry, clementine, and freesia.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
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The organic edging and modern handles create a sleek, sophisticated finish.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
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International sophisticates of every age, seasonal trade-fair young professionals, glamour puss models, honeymooners, couples with kids in tow, heads of state and some of the world’s biggest film stars.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Apr. 2026
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The novel was adapted into a 1965 film, with Caine in a star-making performance as Deighton’s protagonist, a sardonic working-class sophisticate with a love of gourmet food.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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There are cathedral churches of simple diocesan bishops, of archbishops or metropolitans, of primates, of patriarchs, and, in the Roman Catholic Church, of the pope (St. John Lateran is the cathedral church of Rome and thus of the pope).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 May 2026
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As for the documentary, that was spurred by Scorsese's trip to Polizzi Generosa, a town where her father's ancestors are from, in the Italian metropolitan of Palermo.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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