du jour

[duh zhoor, doo, dy zhoor]

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.

du jour

/ duː ˈʒɔː, dy ʒur /

adjective

1. informal,  (postpositive) currently very fashionable or popular

   the young writer du jour

Word History and Origins

Origin of du jour¹

< French: of the day

Word History and Origins

Origin of du jour¹

C20: from French, literally: of the day (as used on restaurant menus of items that change daily)

Example Sentences

Even when his films miss their mark, his willingness to depict the hilt of the human experience results in films packed to the brim with bold artistic decisions in a time when safety is the flavor du jour.

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The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job.

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Back when the short video platform du jour was a little app named Vine, the wildly popular user Anthony Padilla posted a six-second video that became what we know today as a “load-bearing post,” a video that defines culture so succinctly it has become part of modern vernacular.

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While “The Fact Checker” is uneven, it’s a fun and quick read, and it does raise some of the most relevant questions du jour: What is a fact?

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More recently — and at the urging of Trump’s consigliere du jour, the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk — those priorities have included labeling attacks against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism.

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