ute1
/juːt
/noun Australian /NZ informal
A utility vehicle; a pickup.Every year, Australians buy 70,000 utes and small pickups, about 9 percent of the vehicle market....
- No motor vehicle has a more Australian heritage than the ute.
- I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
Origin
1940s: abbreviation.
Ute2
/juːt/noun (plural same or Utes)
1A member of an American Indian people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.At times the Navajos were allied with the Spanish against other Indians, principally the Utes....
- Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
- Cultural familiarity, if not in this case ties of kinship, connected these Utes and New Mexicans, enabling the latter to establish themselves peacefully in Ute territory.
2 [mass noun] The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute, now with few speakers.Her native language, Ute, is closely related to Shoshoni....
- He spoke Ute at home, but as soon as they hit the school bus, and all day long, they spoke English.
- The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
adjective
Relating to the Ute or their language.In the spring of 1784 a Ute headman named Ignacio caught wind of a party of New Mexicans heading north to build a settlement on land the Utes claimed as their own....
- More than a thousand Utes, especially older people, also speak their native Ute language.
- Many Ute children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers.
Origin
From Spanish Yuta; compare with Paiute.
Rhymes
- per pale
- perpend
- perpendent
- perpendicular
- perpendicularity
- perpendicularly
- perpendicularness
- perpendicular pronoun
- perpensity
- perpet
- ion channel
- ion chromatography
- ion drive
- ionene
- ion engine
- Ionesco, Eugène
- ion etching
- ion exchange
- ion-exchange chromatography
- ion-exchanged
- ion-exchange polymer
- ion exchanger
- ion-exchange resin
- ion-exchanging
- ion gage