SUV
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛs.juːˈviː/, /suv/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɛs.juˈvi/
Noun edit
SUV (plural SUVs)
- 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.
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sport utility vehicle
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SUV m (plural SUV's, diminutive SUV'tje n)
- SUV (sports utility vehicle)
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Esperanto edit
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SUV
- Initialism of Sporta Utiligebla Veturilo.; SUV
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SUV m (plural SUVs)
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SUV n or m (strong, genitive SUVs or SUV, plural SUVs or SUV)
- Initialism of Sport Utility Vehicle; SUV
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Further reading edit
- “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–
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Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from English SUV.
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Noun edit
SUV m inan or m animal
- SUV (SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent)
Declension edit
Declension of SUV