butte

¹

[ byoot ]

noun

, Western U.S. and Canada.

1. an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.

Butte

²

[ byoot ]

noun

1. a city in SW Montana: mining center.

butte

/ bjuːt /

noun

1. an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill

butte

/ byo̅o̅t /

1. A steep-sided hill with a flat top, often standing alone in an otherwise flat area. A butte is smaller than a mesa.

Word History and Origins

Origin of butte¹

1650–60, Americanism; < North American French; French: low hill, mound, Old French: landmark, target, apparently feminine derivative of but butt ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of butte¹

C19: from French, from Old French bute mound behind a target, from but target; see butt ²

Example Sentences

A week ago, Amanda Curtis was a just math teacher from Butte with a TED talk.

From The Daily Beast

Tedford spotted Rodgers while recruiting another Butte player, but Rodgers still wears Butte jerseys.

From The Daily Beast

In the end, conduct that might not fly in Butte could draw a fugghedaboudit in Brooklyn.

From The Daily Beast

He dashed off at a full run for the butte, closely followed by Texas Smith and Coronado.

From Project Gutenberg

The lesser one remained flitting about the house, or to and fro between here and Antelope Butte.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth.

From Project Gutenberg

With his field-glass Thurstane discovered what he judged to be another similar structure crowning a distant butte.

From Project Gutenberg

This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• alp
• bluff
• cliff
• crag
• elevation
• eminence
• height
• mesa
• mount
• palisade
• peak
• pike
• precipice
• range
• ridge
• sierra
• tor
• volcano