ute

Contraction of utility vehicle.

• yo͞ot
• IPA^(key): /juːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt

ute (plural utes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.
   • 2007, Sheryl Persson, The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Exisle Publishing, Australia, page 40,

     The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe.

   • 2008, Penelope Adams, Why Women Are Stupid, Lulu, page 105,

     Still, given the choice between being stuck behind a ute in tropical scenery and spending four to five hours driving through stretches of semi-desert, I′d rather have the ute-plus-heart-attack.

   • 2009, Damian Veltri, Bandt, Louis (Lewis) Thornett (1910-1987), entry in Dianne Lingmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K, page 55,

     A sample body was made in 1933 and the first utilities, or ‘utes’, rolled off the production line next year. Dubbed ‘the Kangaroo Chaser’ by Henry Ford when Bandt displayed two examples in Detroit, United States of America, in 1935, the ute was quickly recognised as the ideal farmers′ vehicle.

• bakkie
• dual cab
• panel van
• pick-up truck, pickup truck
• station wagon
• tilly

• ETU, TEU, TUE, Tue, tue

u- +‎ -te

ute

1. I will never
2. so I do not

From Old Norse úti

ute

1. outdoors
2. out; the state of being out. compare: ut

   ute av kontroll - out of control

3. uncool; "old-fashioned"

• utedass
• utekran
• utelåst
• utested

• ut

• “ute” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse úti

• IPA^(key): /²ʉːtə/

ute

1. outdoors
2. out; the state of being out. compare: ut

   ute av kontroll - out of control

3. uncool; "old-fashioned"

• utedass
• utekran
• utelåst

• ut

• “ute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From earlier *ūtē, from Northwest Germanic *ūtē, from Proto-Germanic *ūtai.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːte/

ūte

1. outside, outdoors

   Iċ lēt þā wæsċe ūte drūgian.

   I let the laundry dry outside.

   Wē slēpon ūte under steorrum.

   We slept outside under the stars.

   • c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     His līchama wæs ūte bebyrġed nēah ċirican.

     His body was buried outside near a church.

2. at a distance, out

   ūte on sǣ

   out at sea

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ute

1. outdoors

ute

1. out; the state of being out. compare: ut
2. uncool; "old-fashioned"