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
Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
But its wine culture, the great cosmopolitan theater of taste, was silenced, almost in a single stroke.
—Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 17 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
The way Zohran Mamdani—the son of an Indian-Ugandan Muslim scholar of Africa—has repudiated these values, along with his adherence to a cosmopolitan vision of peace and justice, guarantees extreme hostility to him among the Establishment.
—Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
But its wine culture, the great cosmopolitan theater of taste, was silenced, almost in a single stroke.
—Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 17 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
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Fabiana Filippi The intellectually sophisticated references behind Fabiana Filippi’s spring 2026 collection hinged on work of master photographers Vivian Maier, Arne Svenson and Luigi Ghirri, perfectly shown in the ultra-refined, textured daywear.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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There were also more relaxed but sophisticated looks, such as the tunics and coats with mandarin collars.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
29 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 2 Oct. 2025.
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