Utah
pronunciation
How to pronounce Utah in British English:
UK ['ju:tɑ:]
How to pronounce Utah in American English:
US ['juˌtɑ]
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- Noun:
- a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young
Word Origin
- Utah
- U.S. teritory organized 1850 (admitted as a state 1896), from Spanish yuta, name of the indigenous Uto-Aztecan people of the Great Basin (Modern English Ute), perhaps from Western Apache (Athabaskan) yudah "high" (in reference to living in the mountains).
Example
- 1. Other senators like him . So do politicians in utah .
- 2. President franklin pierce decided he should make someone else governor of utah .
- 3. As a compromise , brigham young was named governor of the new utah territory .
- 4. Today , the train 's last surviving car is at the utah state railroad museum .
- 5. How did utah 's republicans decide that mr bennett had strayed from the true path ?