sport utility vs automobile

sport utility and automobile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sport utility	Yes	No	No	No
automobile	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, automobile is a hypernym of sport utility; that is, automobile is a word with a broader meaning than sport utility:

sport utility: a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
automobile: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

Other hypernyms of sport utility include auto, car, machine, motorcar.

sport utility (noun)	automobile (noun)
a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis	a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

sport utility (verb)	automobile (verb)
	travel in an automobile