A worldly-wise person.

synonym: sophisticate.

Roget 700: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster^†, crackerjack; connoisseur etc. (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima donna [Sp.], first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma.    picked man; medallist, prizeman^†.    veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand; man of business, man of the world.    nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist^†, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror etc. (deceiver) 548; wizard etc. 994.    genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit.    cunning blade, sharp blade, sharp fellow; jobber; cracksman etc. (thief) 792^†; politician, tactician, strategist.    pantologist^†, admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of learning.    ... show more

Roget 852: fashion, style, ton, bon ton^†, society; good society, polite society; monde [Fr.]; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde [Fr.], high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show etc. (ostentation) 822.    manners, breeding etc. (politeness) 894; air, demeanor etc. (appearance) 448; savoir faire [Fr.]; gentlemanliness^†, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance [Fr.]; conventions of society; Mrs.    Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress etc. 225.    custom etc. 613; mode, vogue, go; rage etc. (desire) 865; prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore^†, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word.    man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.] etc. (taste) 850; the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand etc. (nobility) 875; elite etc. (distinction) 873; smart set; the four hundred [U.S.]; in crowd.    ... show more