butte

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a city in Montana
an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated
An isolated hill or mountain with steep or precipitous sides, usually having a smaller summit area than a mesa
a hill with steep sides and a flat top in the western US (from bute ). (French: "hillock" or "rising ground") Flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep cliff, from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation higher than a hill but not high enough to be a mountain. Buttes topped by horizontal platforms of hard rock are characteristic of the arid plateau region of the western U.S. A butte is similar to a mesa but generally smaller; both are created by erosional processes
A hill or very small mountain that is flat topped and steep sides all around
a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
An isolated hill rising abruptly above the surrounding land
a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
A butte is a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides
{i} solitary hill or mountain rising suddenly from the surrounding countryside
a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region
A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides Probably formerly a mesa
A solitary hill or mountain which has extremely steep sides
Rock Creek Butte
A mountain, 2,777 m (9,106 ft) high, in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. It is the highest elevation in the range
buttes
plural of butte
butte

    Hyphenation

    Butte

    Turkish pronunciation

    byut

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbyo͞ot/ /ˈbjuːt/

    Etymology

    [ 'byüt ] (noun.) 1805. From French butte.
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