Redux

//ˈɹiːdʌks// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited. attributive, not-comparable, postpositional

    "After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring."

Adjective
  1. 1
    brought back wordnet

Synonyms

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revived

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"After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring."

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.

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