butte

Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjuːt/

butte (plural buttes)

1. (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

   Coordinate term: mesa

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎:

     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 miles away [on Mars].

• Box Butte County
• Butte County

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butte

1. definite of but
2. plural of but

Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

• IPA^(key): /byt/

butte f (plural buttes)

1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll

   Synonyms: colline, tertre

2. heap

   Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.

   Make a heap around the potato plants.

• → English: butte

• “butte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt