butte

[ byoot ]

/ byut /

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noun Western U.S. and Canada.

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

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Origin of butte

1650–60, Americanism;<North American French; French: low hill, mound, Old French: landmark, target, apparently feminine derivative of butbutt²

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH butte

beaut, butte , Butte

Words nearby butte

butt, buttals, butt bra, butt chisel, butt-dial, butte, butt end, butter, butter-and-egg man, butter-and-eggs, butterball

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Butte

[ byoot ]

/ byut /

noun

a city in SW Montana: mining center.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH Butte

beaut, butte, Butte

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How to use butte in a sentence

Wake up to beige buttes as far as the eye can see before cruising the 27 miles over to Capitol Reef.
The Best Hipcamp for Every National Park|Emily Pennington|May 19, 2021|Outside Online
During her junior year of high school, Butte got involved with an organization in southeastern San Diego, Outdoor Outreach, that links youth from communities like hers to the outdoors.
Groups Push State to Make California’s Outdoor Spaces More Accessible|Maya Srikrishnan|March 5, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Outdoor Outreach, the organization that first introduced Butte to the outdoors in San Diego, is part of the Parks Now coalition that sponsored SB 624.
Groups Push State to Make California’s Outdoor Spaces More Accessible|Maya Srikrishnan|March 5, 2021|Voice of San Diego
“Communities like mine have not been able to access outdoor space for economic reasons, but also historically, communities of color haven’t been accepted into outdoor spaces, and things like surfing and hiking,” Butte said.
Groups Push State to Make California’s Outdoor Spaces More Accessible|Maya Srikrishnan|March 5, 2021|Voice of San Diego

Butte, who grew up in Paradise Hills and continues to live there, said that as a kid, the parks closest to her home often felt unsafe, and her family didn’t have a car to drive to nicer ones farther away.
Groups Push State to Make California’s Outdoor Spaces More Accessible|Maya Srikrishnan|March 5, 2021|Voice of San Diego
A week ago, Amanda Curtis was a just math teacher from Butte with a TED talk.
Meet Montana's Nose-Ringed Candidate for the U.S. Senate|Ben Jacobs|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tedford spotted Rodgers while recruiting another Butte player, but Rodgers still wears Butte jerseys.
Aaron Rodgers: the NFL’s Best Quarterback of All Time|Allen Barra|January 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In the end, conduct that might not fly in Butte could draw a fugghedaboudit in Brooklyn.
Anthony Weiner's Scramble to Save His House Seat|Howard Kurtz|June 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He dashed off at a full run for the butte, closely followed by Texas Smith and Coronado.
Overland|John William De Forest
The lesser one remained flitting about the house, or to and fro between here and Antelope Butte.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral|John Dunloe Carteret
It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth.
Overland|John William De Forest
With his field-glass Thurstane discovered what he judged to be another similar structure crowning a distant butte.
Overland|John William De Forest
This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised)|Melvin Randolph Gilmore

British Dictionary definitions for butte

butte

/ (bjuːt) /

noun

Western US and Canadian an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill

Word Origin for butte

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

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Scientific definitions for butte

butte

[ byōōt ]

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

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