ut

Other forms of ut

plural

uts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ut

What does ut mean?

ut means "the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ut?

ut has 1 syllable: ut.

What is another word for ut?

Close synonyms include Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT1. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ut a common word?

ut is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.