/ˈbjuːt/, /ˈbʌt/
OriginPIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
- USAn isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
“Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million”
- countableA surname.
- countable, uncountableA census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
- countable, uncountableA city, the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States, with which it is a consolidated city-county known as Butte-Silver Bow.
- countable, uncountableA village, the county seat of Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
- countable, uncountableA city and village in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.
Formsbuttes(plural) · Buttes(plural)