Definition of "au courant" []

• Informed on current affairs; up-to-date. (adjective)
• Fully familiar; knowledgeable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Those on the qui vive who need to flaunt their with-it-ness in the face of the stodgily au courant have turned to hot, with the extreme of “forwardly fashionable, at the center of attention” expressed as way hot or hot-hot."
• "But when something riveting happens you can't allow yourself to get swept up in the drama to the extent that you disregard your pen and notebook, or in the case of my more au courant colleagues in the media, your computer."
• "Times, and urging the managers of the latter to send to Paris some fitter and more impartial person, who would be better able to keep the great English newspaper au courant of what was going on below as well as above the surface, than so unscrupulous a person as M. de Blowitz."