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AU FAIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does au fait mean?
• AU FAIT (adjective)
The adjective AU FAIT has 1 sense:
1. being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge
Familiarity information: AU FAIT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge
Synonyms:
abreast; au courant; au fait; up on
Context example:
up on the news
Similar:
informed (having much knowledge or education)
Context examples
One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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