déjà vu
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]déjà vu (usually uncountable, plural déjà vus)
- The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.
- 1996, José Argüelles, “The Secret Time Sharers and the Discovery of the Pulsar Code”, in The Arcturus Probe: Tales and Reports of an Ongoing Investigation, Flagstaff, Ariz.: Light Technology Publishing, →ISBN, part one (Launching the Probe), page 11:
- Why did some déjà vus pattern or pulse at certain peak moments and not others?
- 2005, Lynn Kurland, chapter 27, in Dreams of Stardust, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 271:
- He had to get back. Soon. All these déjà vus were killing him.
- 2008, Francine Prose, chapter 4, in Goldengrove: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 83:
- A few times she mentioned that she’d been having constant déjà vus. She hoped it wasn’t a symptom of a tumor or early-onset dementia.
- Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.
- Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.
Synonyms
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[edit]something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before
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Verb
[edit]déjà vu (third-person singular simple present déjà vues, present participle déjà vuing, simple past and past participle déjà vued)
- (colloquial, intransitive) To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before.
- 2008, Darren Lamere, Eerily Familiar:
- Still deja vuing, I said, “Jinx. You owe me a Coke.”
- 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2011, p. 139:
- Trees looked familiar, moments of landscape were perfectly déjà-vued.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's)
Further reading
[edit]déjà vu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of déjà-vu
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- deja vu (alternative spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).
Noun
[edit]déjà vu n
References
[edit]- “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- deja vu (alternative spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).
Noun
[edit]déjà vu n
References
[edit]- “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]déjà vu n (indeclinable)
- déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)
Further reading
[edit]- déjà vu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- déjà vu in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]déjà vu m (uncountable)
- déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]- déjà vu
- ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)
- have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)
Usage notes
[edit]Uninflected.
References
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