redux
/ˈɹiːdʌks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
Example Sentences
- "After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring."
- "10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco."
- "With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter."
- "The band chased the video up with an acoustic redux of the track, as well as performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annual Fourth Of July Spectacular in New York."
Etymology
From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the publication of the novel Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dewk-, redux