Definitions
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French : du, of the + jour, day. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Unsticking stuck balls, fitting stinky shoes, collecting cash from the crop du jour of the great unwashed.”
“In late spring we used to search its creviced bark for the caterpillars of the merveille du jour moth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘du jour’.
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web
maven, logolepsy, apperception, traduce, caldera, putative, lurid, avant-garde, teleology, heuristic, jugular, manducate and 13 more...
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Foreign Words & Phrases for English
This is for words that would be in italics in a work of great literature
galère, fiat justitia rua..., res ipsa loqitur, prima facie, froideur, je ne sais quoi, aperçu, ca va sans dire, mirabile dictu, in utero, sine qua non, faux naïf and 6 more...
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
propinquity, fratricide, factitious, vitiate, sectarianism, ostensible, atavistic, sephardic, doyen, palpable, encephalitic, fastidious and 188 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Vocabulary
paradox, aberration, laconic, lugubrious, credulous, loquacious, deprecate, pointillistic, epigone, vehement, surly, obtuse and 359 more...
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Neology
neology, du jour, monanthous, corf, schuss, cladophyll, laniferous, astatic, dahabeah, vibrissa, resupinate, almandine and 77 more...
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Internationally Known
wunderkind, a la carte, brunette, blitz, passe, genre, du jour, kindergarten, gegenschein, encore, lederhosen, souvenir and 20 more...
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soitoldthatfool's Words
terra incognita, tete à tete, gourmand, savant, lascivious, salacious, cretin, viscous, intrinsic, malaise, mien, milieu and 133 more...
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French
élan, esprit d'corps, joie de vivre, mise en scene, mise en place, habitues, svelte, emolument, ormolu, legerdemain, svelte, je ne sais quoi and 23 more...
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Very Hazy
Ought to incorporate this into my working vocabulary
betimes, agee, sobriquet, cozen, precis, exonym, froufrou, chichi, captious, dint, sorority, salutory and 58 more...
Tweets
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bilby Or du jour is superflous.
But we probably need to keep the soup in there. Feb 7, 2013
chelster The oft-heard phrase soup du jour of the day, sometimes seen on menus, is redundant. Of the day is superfluous. Mar 24, 2011
spicolli Wordie is my online time waster du jour. Apr 21, 2007