adjective
- as prepared on the particular day; of the kind being served today: The soup du jour is split pea.
- fashionable; current: environmentalism and other issues du jour.
adjective
- (postpositive) informal currently very fashionable or popularthe young writer du jour
from French plat du jour “dish of the day,” early 20c. on restaurant menus, abstracted as an all-purpose modifier 1989.