au courant

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French, from au, in the, courant, current

Adjective

au courant (comparative more au courant, superlative most au courant)

1. Up to date, informed on the latest developments etc.
   • 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 156:

     You talk as though I was perfectly au courant when I do not know the first thing about it.

Synonyms

• au parfum