déjà vu

• deja vu

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

• enPR: dā'-zhä-vo͞oʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

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déjà vu (usually uncountable, plural déjà vus)

1. 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.

2. Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

   Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

• promnesia

• jamais vu
• presque vu
• déjà vu all over again

déjà vu (third-person singular simple present déjà vues, present participle déjà vuing, simple past and past participle déjà vued)

1. (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.

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

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déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's)

1. déjà vu

• déjà vu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa vy/

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déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

1. alternative form of déjà-vu

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

• “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

• “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• deja vu

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʐaˈvi/
• Rhymes: -i
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déjà vu n (indeclinable)

1. déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

• déjà vu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• déjà vu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

déjà vu m (uncountable)

1. déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

déjà vu m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of dejavú

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• deja vu

déjà vu c (indeclinable)

1. déjà vu

   ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)

   have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)

• déjà vu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• déjà vu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)