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butte
1[ byoot ]
noun
- an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.
Butte
2[ byoot ]
noun
- a city in SW Montana: mining center.
butte
/ bjuːt /
noun
- an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill
butte
/ byo̅o̅t /
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of butte1
Example Sentences
A week ago, Amanda Curtis was a just math teacher from Butte with a TED talk.
Tedford spotted Rodgers while recruiting another Butte player, but Rodgers still wears Butte jerseys.
In the end, conduct that might not fly in Butte could draw a fugghedaboudit in Brooklyn.
He dashed off at a full run for the butte, closely followed by Texas Smith and Coronado.
The lesser one remained flitting about the house, or to and fro between here and Antelope Butte.
It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth.
With his field-glass Thurstane discovered what he judged to be another similar structure crowning a distant butte.
This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.
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