butte

See also: Butte and butté

English

Buttes

Etymology

A butte.

Borrowing from French butte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbjut]

Noun

butte (plural buttes)

1. (US) an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times^[1]:

     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].

Derived terms

• Butte County

Translations

hill

• Danish: butte (da) c
• German: Härtling (de) m
• Irish: buta m

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Portuguese: planalto (pt) m
• Russian: холм с крутыми склонами (xolm s krutymi sklonami), останец (ru) m (ostanec)

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Danish

Adjective

butte

1. definite of but
2. plural of but

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French

Etymology

Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byt/

Noun

butte f (plural buttes)

1. small hill, hillock; knoll
2. heap

   Faire une butte autour des plants de pomme de terre.

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Synonyms

• (hill): colline, tertre

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt