SUV

See also: suv and S.U.V.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.juːˈviː/, /suv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.juˈvi/

Noun

SUV (plural SUVs)

1. Initialism of sport utility vehicle; also S.U.V.
   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

   • 2019 March 7, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.

   • 2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Audi, which markets a variety of electrified S.U.V.s like the E-tron, is developing other designs as pure electrics, said an Audi of America spokesman, Mark Dahncke.

Hyponyms

• CUV (“compact utility vehicle”)
• XUV (“crossover utility vehicle”)
• EUV (“electric utility vehicle”)

Descendants

• French: SUV
• German: SUV

Translations

sport utility vehicle

• Dutch: SUV m
• Esperanto: SUV (eo)
• Finnish: katumaasturi (fi), citymaasturi (fi)
• French: VUS (fr) SUV (fr), TTL (fr)
• German: SUV (de) m or n
• Polish: SUV (pl) m
• Portuguese: SUV
• Spanish: todocamino m or f

Anagrams

• Vus, USV, VUs

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English SUV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.juˈvi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

SUV m (plural SUV's, diminutive SUV'tje n)

1. SUV (sports utility vehicle)

Derived terms

• bluf-SUV

Esperanto

Noun

SUV

1. Initialism of Sporta Utiligebla Veturilo.; SUV

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English SUV.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

SUV m (plural SUVs)

1. (Anglicism) SUV; Synonym of VUS (véhicule utilitaire sport)

Synonyms

• VUS
• TTL

German

der Chevrolet Trailblazer ist ein SUV - the Chevrolet Trailblazer is a SUV

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

SUV n or m (strong, genitive SUVs or SUV, plural SUVs or SUV)

1. Initialism of Sport Utility Vehicle; SUV

See also

• Geländewagen

Further reading

• “SUV” in Duden online
• “SUV” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “SUV”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–

Polish

SUV

Alternative forms

• suw

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English SUV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suf/
• Rhymes: -uf
• Syllabification: SUV
• Homophones: sów, suw

Noun

SUV m inan or m animal

1. SUV (SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent)

Declension

Declension of SUV

	singular	plural
nominative	SUV	SUV-y
genitive	SUV-a	SUV-ów
dative	SUV-owi	SUV-om
accusative	SUV/SUV-a	SUV-y
instrumental	SUV-em	SUV-ami
locative	SUV-ie	SUV-ach
vocative	SUV-ie	SUV-y

Further reading

• SUV in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• SUV in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• SUV in PWN's encyclopedia