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

Wake up to beige buttes as far as the eye can see before cruising the 27 miles over to Capitol Reef.

From Outside Online

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.

From Voice of San Diego

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Voice of San Diego

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