as in cosmopolitan
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers having sung in opera houses all over the world, she has the confident demeanor of a seasoned cosmopolite

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Recent Examples of cosmopolite In one scene, the function of food as a status symbol for globe-trotting cosmopolites becomes clear. Amelia Lester, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018 Born in France into a Turkish family, Shafak, 46, is the ultimate modern cosmopolite. John Timpane, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018 The Gersons named their building Ballinhaus as a monument to the country’s late cosmopolite-in-chief. Yuliya Komska, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017 That vaudevillian public disdain for East Coast intellectuals, Ivy League blue bloods, cosmopolites — all of it started with Nixon. Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
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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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  • 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
  • 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

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“Cosmopolite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolite. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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