metropolitan 1 of 2

as in cosmopolitan
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers a TV series about the lives and loves of a group of young, attractive metropolitans

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metropolitan

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adjective

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Noun
The program was founded in 2018 with the goal of enticing knowledge workers to a budding metropolitan that could no longer be as reliant on the volatile gas and oil industries that represented a boom for Tulsa in the twentieth century, according to Tulsa Remote managing director Justin Harlan. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024 The international metropolitan is strategically located in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), an economic powerhouse with a GDP of about US$2 trillion in 2023. Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Cities of all sizes and in all regions of the United States experienced a boost in population from 2023 to 2024, even metropolitan areas in the Northeast that had reported declines in recent years, according to new data from the Census Bureau. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 Where housing availability is improving Thirty cities are showing improvements in affordable listings, including metropolitan areas such as Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina, the research found. Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for metropolitan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metropolitan
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
Adjective
  • The Liberty Macarena’s location is the latest of several metro Mexican restaurants to close.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • For example, in 2020 Democrats saw a net gain in the metro Milwaukee suburbs of about 25,000 votes compared to 2016, enough by itself to cost Trump the state.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Its release comes amid a burgeoning arms race for salary cap tools and sophisticates.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Two highly modern, eminently civilized nations were plunged into chaos.
    Kelly McKinney, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • International good faith, a sister of democracy, springs from the will of civilized nations of men to respect the rights and liberties of other nations of men.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Yogurt is created with cultured bacteria and kefir with kefir grains (live cultures that ferment milk and multiply).
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 6 May 2025
  • Molina presented herself as a successful entrepreneur, cultured and generous, and never hesitated to shower Ana with praise.
    Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 1 May 2025

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“Metropolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolitan. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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