ute

Clipping of utility vehicle.

• enPR: 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, Australia: Exisle Publishing, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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)”, in Dianne Lingmore, Darryl Bennet, editors, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 17 1981–1990: A–K, →ISBN, 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.

   • 2023 December 31, Matthew Weaver, “Rohan Dennis charged over death of wife, fellow cyclist Melissa Dennis”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Paramedics rushed Melissa Dennis to the Royal Adelaide hospital with serious injuries after she was hit by a ute at Medindie on Saturday night.

• sport ute

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

• ETU, TEU, TUE, Tue, tue

ute

1. eight

u- +‎ -te

ute

1. I will never
2. so I do not

From Old Norse úti.

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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 Proto-West Germanic *ūtē, from Proto-Germanic *ūtai.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.te/

ūte (comparative ūtor, superlative ȳtemest)

1. outside, outdoors

   Iċ lēt þā wæsċe ūte drūgian.

   I let the laundry dry outside.

   Wē slēpon ūte under þām 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.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 13:25

     Þonne sē hīredes ealdor inn gǣþ and his duru beclȳst, and ġē standaþ þǣr ūte and þā duru cnociaþ, and cweðaþ, "Dryhten, ātȳn ūs," þonne cwiþ hē tō ēow, "Ne cann iċ ēow; nāt iċ hwanon ġē sind."

     When the master of the house goes in and shuts the door, and you stand outside and knock on the door, saying, "Lord, open to us," then he will say to you, "I don't know you, I don't know where you're from."

2. at a distance, out

   ūte on sǣ

   out at sea

From Old Swedish ūte, from Old Norse úti.

• IPA^(key): /²ʉːtɛ/

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ute

1. outside, outdoors

   Synonym: (outdoors) utomhus

   Antonym: inne

   Jag lät tvätten torka ute

   I let the laundry dry outside

   Vi sov ute under stjärnorna

   We slept outside under the stars

   Han är ute ur leken

   He's out of the game (idiomatic)

2. at a distance, out

   ute på sjön

   out at sea

   ute på fältet

   out on the field

ute (not comparable)

1. out of fashion, passé, now uncool

   Synonym: passé

   Antonyms: inne, hipp

   Hans frisyr var ute

   His hairstyle was out of fashion

• ut (“to out”)

• ute in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ute in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ute in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)