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
Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
Greece became more cosmopolitan, and its philosophy and art scenes flourished.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2024
Fabulous cocktails: From cosmopolitans to mojitos and dirty martinis, a specialized cocktail menu will elevate any soiree.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 June 2024
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Adjective
The actual teachings of an ancient religious tradition are, of course, nonpartisan, but there’s an evident attempt on Amazon’s part to speak to customers otherwise overlooked by liberal, cosmopolitan Hollywood.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
Greece became more cosmopolitan, and its philosophy and art scenes flourished.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
In this episode of BA’s cocktail series, Sweeney breaks down some of the most popular cocktail glasses around, and discusses the details that make for better cosmopolitans, margaritas, daiquiris, and more.
—Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2024
Fabulous cocktails: From cosmopolitans to mojitos and dirty martinis, a specialized cocktail menu will elevate any soiree.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitan
Adjective
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Inside the lines, however, each hole connects to very sophisticated emitter that releases water one drop at a time.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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That review can be cursory (does your tax return match the data that the IRS has on file?) or a bit more sophisticated (does your tax return make sense based on other data, like your historic filing patterns?).—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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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
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Its release comes amid a burgeoning arms race for salary cap tools and sophisticates.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 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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Arizona's population has skyrocketed over the past decade — but some of the highest rates of growth have occurred outside of our major metropolitans, per an Axios analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates.—
Jessica Boehm,
Axios,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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