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adjective

cosmopolitan

familiar with and at ease in many different cultures

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cosmopolitan, each labelled with its topic.

  • Six postings on four continents left her cosmopolitan enough to order dinner, argue a fare, and read a room anywhere she landed.

    Travel

  • The menu is unapologetically cosmopolitan, moving from Oaxacan mole to Georgian walnut sauce without treating either as a novelty.

    Cooking

  • Raised in Trieste and schooled in Paris, the narrator is cosmopolitan in a way the villagers find both useful and suspect.

    Literature

  • The bandleader was cosmopolitan enough to count in four languages and tune a sitar between sets.

    Music

  • The firm's cosmopolitan sales team switches from Tokyo etiquette to Texan small talk within a single afternoon.

    Business

  • A decade of overseas seasons made him cosmopolitan, ordering dinner in Greek and arguing with referees in Spanish.

    Basketball

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