déjà vu

• deja vu

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

• enPR: dā"zhä vo͞o'
• IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

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déjà vu (uncountable)

1. Something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before, especially when that is not the case.

   Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

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.

• jamais vu
• presque vu

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa vy/

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déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

1. Alternative form of déjà-vu

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

déjà vu

1. déjà vu

• deja vu, dejavu

déjà vu m (plural déjà vus)

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