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
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
The only people standing around were those working on the project—a small, cosmopolitan crowd of Ivorian telecom officials, a Lebanese contractor with his two bright-yellow earthmovers, Greek cable technicians, an American ASN rep, and the Panamanian chief of a diving and welding company.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2025
The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Cultured, cosmopolitan, generally liberal, the Dohnányis and the Bonhoeffers represented the best of the German-speaking bourgeois tradition.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
The only people standing around were those working on the project—a small, cosmopolitan crowd of Ivorian telecom officials, a Lebanese contractor with his two bright-yellow earthmovers, Greek cable technicians, an American ASN rep, and the Panamanian chief of a diving and welding company.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
Is whiskey a man’s spirit, while women are only allowed to sip cosmopolitans?
—Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2025
The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitan
Adjective
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China launches its largest naval aircraft carrier China’s largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier entered active service, the latest sign of Beijing’s growing naval might.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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When in doubt, cozy gifts are also a no-brainer option, from Olivia von Halle’s silky-and-sophisticated pajamas to the pricey yet worth-it Matteo Robe from Matouk.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Few things jar the delicate pretensions of the cocktail sophisticate so much as a drink with a chicken on top.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
Denver Post,
28 Oct. 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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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 28 Nov. 2025.
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