au courant
UK/əʊ kʊˈɹɒn(t)//ˌoʊ kʊˈɹɑnt/
au courant adjective: up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.
Adjective
au courant (comparative more au courant, superlative most au courant)
- Up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.
- 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.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 135
- As Hemingway once noted, Paris is an old city—and so even a 1946 film looks au courant: part of the aesthetic air.2013 October 23, Meghan O’Rourke, “Watching American Movies in Paris”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- au parfum
au courant meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
au courant in Tamil
- அறிவது அறிந்த, காலத்துக்கேற்ப, புத்தம்புதிய
au courant in Malayalam
- up to date, au fait, in touch
- ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ വിവരങ്ങൾ അറിയാവുന്ന, വിവരങ്ങൾ അപ്പപ്പോൾ അറിയുന്ന, നന്നായറിയുന്ന, നല്ല പരിചയമുള്ള, വിവരങ്ങൾ എല്ലാം അറിയാവുന്ന, പരിചയമുള്ള
Examples of au courant in a sentence
- Its hipness recalls the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax, making for an intoxicating blend of the retro and au courant.2018 May 2, Catherine Taylor, “Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes review – foul-mouthed satire of modern France”, in The Guardian...
- A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd....
- “Know Your Enemy,” an au courant lefty podcast, has devoted multiple episodes to discussions of Freud, who has become a frequent topic of conversation among the show’s hosts.2023 March 22, Joseph Bernstein, “Not Your Daddy’s Freud”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Synonyms of au courant
- au parfum
Forms of au courant
| comparative | more au courant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most au courant |
Origin of au courant
Borrowed from French au courant (literally “to the current”).
Questions about au courant
- What does au courant mean?
- Au courant means up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.
- What is au courant in Tamil?
- Au courant in Tamil is அறிவது அறிந்த, காலத்துக்கேற்ப, புத்தம்புதிய. See Au courant meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use au courant in a sentence?
- Its hipness recalls the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax, making for an intoxicating blend of the retro and au courant.
- What part of speech is au courant?
- Au courant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce au courant?
- Au courant is pronounced /əʊ kʊˈɹɒn(t)/ (UK).
Words near au courant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: au courant (page history and authors); au courant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); au courant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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