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nounPlural Utes, Plural utes juːtjut Australian, NZ informal A utility vehicle; a pickup. 〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉轻型货车 ordinary families buy pickups and sport utes Example sentencesExamples - A lifeguard in a ute drove past and gave me a wave.
- There was a verandah out the front where we sipped our milkshakes and watched the utes driving past.
- I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
- No motor vehicle has a more Australian heritage than the ute.
- Every year, Australians buy 70,000 utes and small pickups, about 9 percent of the vehicle market.
Synonyms pickup truck, utility truck, utility vehicle
nounPlural Utes, Plural utes juːtjut 1A member of a North American people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- At times the Navajos were allied with the Spanish against other Indians, principally the Utes.
- Apparently it was a sacred place for the Utes who used to winter here.
- Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
- In Utah the territory's dominant tribe, the Utes, had lived for centuries close by Utah Lake.
2mass noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute, now with few speakers. Example sentencesExamples - 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 juːtjut Relating to the Ute or their language. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
OriginFrom Spanish Yuta; compare with Paiute. nounjutyo͞ot Australian, NZ informal A utility vehicle. 〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉轻型货车 ordinary families buy pickups and sport utes Example sentencesExamples - A lifeguard in a ute drove past and gave me a wave.
- I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
- There was a verandah out the front where we sipped our milkshakes and watched the utes driving past.
- 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.
Synonyms pickup truck, utility truck, utility vehicle
nounyo͞otjut 1A member of a North American people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. Example sentencesExamples - Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
- Apparently it was a sacred place for the Utes who used to winter here.
- In Utah the territory's dominant tribe, the Utes, had lived for centuries close by Utah Lake.
- 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.
- At times the Navajos were allied with the Spanish against other Indians, principally the Utes.
2The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute. Example sentencesExamples - He spoke Ute at home, but as soon as they hit the school bus, and all day long, they spoke English.
- Her native language, Ute, is closely related to Shoshoni.
- The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
adjectiveyo͞otjut Relating to the Ute or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Many Ute children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers.
- 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.
OriginFrom Spanish Yuta; compare with Paiute. |