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
Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
This cosmopolitan attitude toward food allows rats to survive on ships and wherever those ships eventually land.
—Jason Bittel, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
The adjective cosmopolitan only begins to describe Sajet, who has had important life experiences on four continents.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
But Cape Charles is decidedly more cosmopolitan than Andy Griffith's stomping grounds.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
This cosmopolitan attitude toward food allows rats to survive on ships and wherever those ships eventually land.
—Jason Bittel, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
The adjective cosmopolitan only begins to describe Sajet, who has had important life experiences on four continents.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
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The series’ earnestly naïve sound design (horses neighing, cars revving) only enhanced my appreciation of Joudrey’s sophisticated storytelling.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Ditto the sophisticated modulations and subtle rhythmic shifts that underpin Puth’s best songs.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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International sophisticates of every age, seasonal trade-fair young professionals, glamour puss models, honeymooners, couples with kids in tow, heads of state and some of the world’s biggest film stars.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Apr. 2026
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The novel was adapted into a 1965 film, with Caine in a star-making performance as Deighton’s protagonist, a sardonic working-class sophisticate with a love of gourmet food.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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As for the documentary, that was spurred by Scorsese's trip to Polizzi Generosa, a town where her father's ancestors are from, in the Italian metropolitan of Palermo.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
10 Dec. 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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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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