as in sophisticate
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
a TV series about the lives and loves of a group of young, attractive metropolitans
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Recent Examples of metropolitan
Mark Anthony Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025
To compile the data, ConsumerAffairs looked at commute times, traffic duration, and car crash rates across the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the United States.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2025
Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
The international metropolitan is strategically located in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), an economic powerhouse with a GDP of about US$2 trillion in 2023.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The Baltimore metropolitan area accounts for more than half of Maryland’s GDP.
—Mark Anthony Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025
To compile the data, ConsumerAffairs looked at commute times, traffic duration, and car crash rates across the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the United States.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The program was founded in 2018 with the goal of enticing knowledge workers to a budding metropolitan that could no longer be as reliant on the volatile gas and oil industries that represented a boom for Tulsa in the twentieth century, according to Tulsa Remote managing director Justin Harlan.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
The international metropolitan is strategically located in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), an economic powerhouse with a GDP of about US$2 trillion in 2023.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metropolitan
Noun
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Whisler's On Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m., martinis (including espresso, regular, dirty and cosmopolitans) are 75 cents.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Aug. 2025
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Is whiskey a man’s spirit, while women are only allowed to sip cosmopolitans?—
Jessi Roti,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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The Liberty Macarena’s location is the latest of several metro Mexican restaurants to close.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2025
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For example, in 2020 Democrats saw a net gain in the metro Milwaukee suburbs of about 25,000 votes compared to 2016, enough by itself to cost Trump the state.—
Craig Gilbert,
Journal Sentinel,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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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How things have changed: My interlocutor was one member of a large and diverse constituency of urban sophisticates who espouse comparable positions, not infrequently in the same gratingly defiant terms.—
Ian Volner,
Artforum,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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But what civilized nation, confronted with hungry children, would not move to relieve that suffering?—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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The idea that a civilized nation must set aside a weapon that might help to end a war, especially against a fanatical enemy that shows few signs of moving toward a normal sort of surrender, is one that most Americans fighting World War II would have understandably rejected.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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Ready to get cultured, but not sure where to start?—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
31 July 2025
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Founder and creative director Salma Rachid has designed it for a cultured and cosmopolitan clientele.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
10 July 2025
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“Metropolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolitan. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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