a la mode

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Fashionable; in the current style or fashion.
2. (US) Served with ice cream.
3. Of beef: larded and stewed with vegetables.

Adv

In a particular style or fashion.

Concepts

à la mode

en vogue

Synonymes

fashionable

in fashion

modish

in vogue

latest

in style

stylish

trendy

voguish

faddish

hep

Traductions

modern

modisch

à la mode

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌɑləˈməʊd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Unadapted borrowing from French à la mode (“in fashion”). The US sense was coined by polyglot restaurant owner John Gieriet in Minnesota in the 1800s though later attributed to Berry Hall and Charles Watson Townsend.