au courant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French au courant (literally “to the current”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əʊ kʊˈɹɒn(t)/
Adjective
au courant (comparative more au courant, superlative most au courant)
- Up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, OCLC 2057953, page 135:
- Doctor Portman and Smirke were both cautious of informing the widow of the constant outbreak of calumny which was pursuing poor Pen, though Glanders, who was a friend of the house, kept him au courant.
- 2013 October 23, Meghan O’Rourke, “Watching American Movies in Paris”, in The Atlantic:
- As Hemingway once noted, Paris is an old city—and so even a 1946 film looks au courant: part of the aesthetic air.
- 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:
- A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.
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Synonyms
- au parfum
Translations
informed — see in the loop
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o ku.ʁɑ̃/
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Adjective
au courant (invariable)
- up to date, abreast
- La mère de Julie est décédée la semaine passée, tu étais au courant ? ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Synonyms: au parfum, au jus
Derived terms
- tenir au courant
- mettre au courant
- être au courant