Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word UTU
UTU
Definitions of UTU
- (mythology) A Sumerian deity, the son of the moon god Nanna and the goddess Ningal.
- Initialism of Ulster Teachers' Union.
- Initialism of United Transportation Union.
- Initialism of University of Turku.
- (New Zealand) Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge. [from 19th c.]
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
Yes
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Examples of Using UTU in a Sentence
- Co-written and directed by Geoff Murphy, the films stars Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Eliott, Ilona Rodgers, Wi Kuki Kaa and Merata Mita, and depicts the story of a Māori warrior who sets out on a quest for "utu" (revenge).
- While the Forsaiths were visiting Sydney in February 1842, the discovery of a Māori skull on their property caused serious trouble, as Māori chiefs including Te Tirarau Kukupa claimed a tapu and ransacked the station as utu.
- The reason to gather a taua may be for reasons of seeking revenge (utu) or seeking compensation for an offence against an individual, community or society (muru).
- Around 1819-20, during the Ngāti Toa migration southwards after being evicted from Kawhia by Waikato-Maniapoto after the Te Arawi battle, Te Apihae Te Kawau, of Ngāti Whatua, Kukutai, of Ngāti Tipa (Waikato), and Peehi Tukorehu, of Ngāti Paretekawa (Maniapoto), embarked with some 400-500 distinguished warriors on the "Amio Whenua" expedition to seek retribution or utu from the tribes who had sought to invade their ancestral homelands in the Waipa and Waikato territories during the Hingakaka battle.
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