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
Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
The director’s affection for America extends beyond cosmopolitan centers, too.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 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
Book lovers in Beijing are also increasingly drawn to the cosmopolitan city’s annual Literature Festival.
—Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
The director’s affection for America extends beyond cosmopolitan centers, too.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 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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Adjective
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The aesthetic is defined by deep red and forest green tartans, warm lighting, elevated accents, and sophisticated dinnerware that evokes classic holiday charm with a polished Americana flair.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
4 Nov. 2025
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The sophisticated sound work was not yet part of broadcast radio’s lingua franca, but my generation of producers were at least exposed to some of the possibilities inherent in the form.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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 8 Nov. 2025.
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