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
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Mar. 2025
While many visitors come to view the workings of the famous Panama Canal connecting these two bodies of water, this cosmopolitan metropolis offers enriching experiences for discerning travelers also looking to immerse themselves in the region’s history and culture.
—Carolyn Heller, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Carl Öhman, TIME, 31 July 2024
In this episode of BA’s cocktail series, Sweeney breaks down some of the most popular cocktail glasses around, and discusses the details that make for better cosmopolitans, margaritas, daiquiris, and more.
—Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2024
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Adjective
Onward to colorful, cosmopolitan Dallas, through Austin (home of the University of Texas), and finally to San Antonio, where the legend of the Alamo and the Riverwalk attract people from all over the world.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Mar. 2025
While many visitors come to view the workings of the famous Panama Canal connecting these two bodies of water, this cosmopolitan metropolis offers enriching experiences for discerning travelers also looking to immerse themselves in the region’s history and culture.
—Carolyn Heller, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
Just like globalization forced us all to become cosmopolitans (citizens of the universe) by breaking spatial boundaries, the aging of the internet compels us to become archeopolitans—citizens of an archive—by breaking down temporal boundaries.
—Carl Öhman, TIME, 31 July 2024
In this episode of BA’s cocktail series, Sweeney breaks down some of the most popular cocktail glasses around, and discusses the details that make for better cosmopolitans, margaritas, daiquiris, and more.
—Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitan
Adjective
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The key benefits of integration include: • Enhanced Threat Detection: By unifying security tools, organizations can achieve a holistic view of their threat landscape, enabling the identification of sophisticated attacks that might evade stand-alone systems.—
Bob Kruse,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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According to Google, zero-day exploits are becoming increasingly easy for threat actors to develop and procure, which has led to more sophisticated attacks.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Neither film mentions the pandemic, but both show how a circle of moneyed, urban sophisticates represses feelings about death and anxiety.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Apr. 2025
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Its release comes amid a burgeoning arms race for salary cap tools and sophisticates.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 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 May. 2025.
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