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
Ben Davidson Correspondent, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
The cosmopolitan Sajet was born in Nigeria to Dutch parents, and was raised in Australia.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Billionaire cosmopolitans who want to hire immigrants don’t mix easily with vehemently nativist populists who want to ratchet up taxes on said billionaires.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
In Zurich, people are considered quite cosmopolitan and most everyone speaks English, Swiss-German and/or French.
—Ben Davidson Correspondent, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
The cosmopolitan Sajet was born in Nigeria to Dutch parents, and was raised in Australia.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Billionaire cosmopolitans who want to hire immigrants don’t mix easily with vehemently nativist populists who want to ratchet up taxes on said billionaires.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitan
Adjective
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Boiled down in a cauldron using traditional methods, the sulfate-free formula bubbles up into a lovely lather that washes hands without stripping them (the glycerin, as well as coconut, olive, and sweet almond oils, are to thank) and fills the room with its sophisticated, Provençal scents.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Smart stability through clever control The key to this drone’s ability to stabilize is a sophisticated feedback controller.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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For Foster’s second win, she was remade as a bona fide A-lister: a sleek Hollywood sophisticate with nothing to prove.—
Merle Ginsberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Friend is Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s class-conscious lament for how urban sophisticates (Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane) deny but can’t escape spiritual obligations.—
Armond White,
National Review,
9 July 2025
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolitans, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
21 Apr. 2025
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Han, looking almost cartoonishly mid-century metropolitan, wears a dark coat, with the lapel snapped up, over a white shirt and a dark tie.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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