Ute

informal Australian, New Zealand

1A member of a North American 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.’
- ‘In Utah the territory's dominant tribe, the Utes, had lived for centuries close by Utah Lake.’
- ‘Apparently it was a sacred place for the Utes who used to winter here.’
2The Uto-Aztecan language of the Ute.
- ‘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.’

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.’

Main definitions of ute in English