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- du jour [ d uhzhoor, doo; French d y zhoor ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA adjective as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today: The soup du jour is split pea. fashionable; current: environmentalism and other issues du jour.
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The meaning of DU JOUR is made for a particular day —used of an item not specified on the regular menu. How to use du jour in a sentence.
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Du jour definition: as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today. See examples of DU JOUR used in a sentence.
Du jour is French for "of the day ": Food miles, or the distance an ingredient has to travel from field to plate, are the topic du jour. Forget the beach — mountain resorts are the hot trend du jour. Fewer examples. Mains come with the house salad and the sides du jour.
The French loan phrase du jour, meaning literally of the day, came to English in the 1960s when restaurants started using it to highlight their daily specials (their plats du jour). More recently, it has expanded from its original sense, and it now sometimes means recent, current, or trendy.
Definition of du jour adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the adjective du jour mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective du jour . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
du jour in American English. (də ˈʒur, duː, French dʏ ˈʒuːʀ) adjective. 1. as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today. The soup du jour is split pea. 2. fashionable; current. environmentalism and other issues du jour.
