Uberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The company's name is from uber, from German über (“above, over”), as in “above all the rest (of the competition),” a principle the founders wanted to build upon.

発音

• IPA: /ˈuːbə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -uːbə(ɹ)
• Homophone: uber

名詞

Uber (plural Ubers)

1. A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber.
   • 2016, Jared Meyer, Uber-Positive: Why Americans Love the Sharing Economy‎, Encounter Books, →ISBN:

     Simply because there are more drivers who have signed up to partner with Uber than there are yellow taxis does not mean that there are more Ubers on the road.

   • 2016, Aaron Keller, Renée Marino, Dan Wallace, The Physics of Brand: Understand the Forces Behind Brands that Matter, Blue Ash, OH: HOW Books, →ISBN, page 143:

     It all comes back to two highly compelling moments. The moment you requested an Uber and the moment you exited the car with a mere thank-you.

   • 2020, Matt Pridgen, Confessions of a Late Night Uber Driver, Lionhearts Press, →ISBN:

     Last week, my cousin asked me how to schedule an Uber for a morning ride to the airport. Because I drive Uber almost every night (and write stories about it), she was quite surprised that I had no idea how to do it.

2. The vehicle used for the ride.
3. One's passenger or driver on Uber.

派生語

動詞

Uber (third-person singular simple present Ubers, present participle Ubering, simple past and past participle Ubered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To travel by means of a mobile app-based ridesharing service, particularly but not necessarily Uber.

   Should we take the train or should we just Uber?

   • 2017 February 28, Adonis Hoffman, “Uber is on a collision course with regulators and lawyers”, in The Hill‎, archived from the original on 31 January 2023, retrieved 21 March 2017:

     You can Uber to the event and avoid the parking problem.

   • 2017 December 14, Heather Schwedel, “Let’s Uber. I’ll Call a Lyft.”, in Slate‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2021, retrieved 14 December 2017:

     “I closed my Uber account months ago,” she told me recently. Even so, she still Ubers from time to time. In a manner of speaking.
     As with a lot of people I know, Medina doesn’t use Uber, but she still Ubers. When she uses ride-hailing apps—and Uber is no longer among them—she still uses the name as her chosen noun or verb because that’s just what you say now. Should we take the train or just Uber?

   • 2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, quoting Josh Lora, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 July 2025:

     […] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”

2. (intransitive, uncommon) To work or be employed as a driver for Uber.

参考

参照

アナグラム

• buer, bure, ebru, erub, Bure, Rueb, rube, Rube, Brue, Reub

語源

Borrowed from German über-. Doublet of over-.

発音

• IPA: /ˈu.bə(ɹ)/

Or, imitating the German, [ˈjuːbə], [ˈɪuːbə], [ˈyːbə(ɹ)].

接頭辞

uber-

1. (slang, augmentative) Super; really; mega-.

   And Gisele Bündchen was known as an uber-model, over and above super-models.

   Uber-fans forget that even a sporting arena is a public place, not the living room; and that in public places certain rules of conduct apply.

使用する際の注意点

A hyperbolic term, implying extremely, to the point of obsession. May accordingly have pejorative connotations, as in uberdork, ubergeek.

同意語

• (augmentative): super-, supra-, hyper-, ultra-, macro-, arch-, over-, mega-, maxi-, giga-, -zilla, grand

派生語

• See also: English terms prefixed with uber-
• uberdork
• ubergeek
• ubercool
• übercool

関連する語

• ubermensch

参照

アナグラム

• buer, bure, ebru, erub, Bure, Rueb, rube, Rube, Brue, Reub