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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Cnn Staff, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
And much like the city itself, Boston’s top hotels effortlessly blend the colonial past with its cosmopolitan present.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2023
The couple and their guests toasted with cosmopolitans, Tom Collinses, and Champagne to kick things off, and then the lighting transitioned to a ’90s dance party with strobes and lasers as guests spilled out onto the balconies of the ICA overlooking St. James’s Park and the Mall.
—Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
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Adjective
But to some Shenzhen residents and online commentators, the daylight killing in one of China’s most cosmopolitan cities has prompted urgent reflection on the role of nationalistic propaganda and xenophobia in fueling such attacks.
—Cnn Staff, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
And much like the city itself, Boston’s top hotels effortlessly blend the colonial past with its cosmopolitan present.
—Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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At the other end of the spectrum are cosmopolitans, who believe that states should treat all humans equally.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2023
The couple and their guests toasted with cosmopolitans, Tom Collinses, and Champagne to kick things off, and then the lighting transitioned to a ’90s dance party with strobes and lasers as guests spilled out onto the balconies of the ICA overlooking St. James’s Park and the Mall.
—Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 18 Oct. 2024.
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