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tue

/ˈtuə(h)/

tue is the archaic form of tui.

Meaning of tui

Noun

tui (plural tui or tuis)

  1. A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
    • [A]ll was quiet, beautiful, and serene; the only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird), the splashing of our own oars, or the occasional flight of a wild duck (or shag), disturbed by our approach.1832, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; […], London: […] [A. & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], →OCLC, page 174

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Noun (1) capitalized: Tue

Tue (plural Tues)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Tuesday.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tue

Tue

  1. (alternative, rare) Alternative form of Tiu (the god Tyr).
    • One feels that here the old pagan gods have come into their own again, the ones we acknowledge every day of the week without thinking — Tue, Woden, Thor and Freia; and certainly nature herself has reclaimed what was once a site cleared of vegetation.1995, Miles Jebb, Suffolk, page 193
    • I remember this all took place on a Tuesday; the day of the great god 'Tue'. Honestly, that's who it's named after. If you don't believe me, go look it up. I have no idea what it was that Tue did exactly, but I'd say he or she was pretty lucky […]2008, Adam Corres, Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate, Grosvenor House Publishing, first hardback edition, page 20

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tue

Tue

  1. A barangay of Tadian, Mountain Province, Philippines.

Noun (2) capitalized: TUE

TUE (plural TUEs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of therapeutic use exemption.

Forms of tue

pluraltues
pluralTues
alternative formTues.
alternative formTues
alternative formTue.
pluralTUEs

Origin of tue

Anglicisation of Old English Tiw from analogy with English Tuesday.

Borrowed from Kankanaey Tue.

Questions about tue

What does tue mean?
Tue means a barangay of Tadian, Mountain Province, Philippines.
What is tue the archaic form of?
Tue is the archaic form of tui.
What part of speech is tue?
Tue can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tue?
Tue is pronounced /ˈtuə(h)/.
What is the plural of tue?
The plural of tue is tues.

Words near tue in the dictionary

  1. tudung
  2. tudungs
  3. tuduns
  4. Tudweiliog
  5. Tudyk
  6. tue
  7. tue-iron
  8. tue-irons
  9. Tuebrook
  10. tueiron
  11. tueirons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tue (page history and authors); Tue (page history and authors); TUE (page history and authors); tui (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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