butte
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
| PIE word |
|---|
| *bʰudʰmḗn |
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈbjuːt/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈbʌt/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: beaut
Noun[edit]
butte (plural buttes)
- (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- Coordinate term: mesa
- 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
hill
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References[edit]
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 10, page 38.
Further reading[edit]
Danish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butte
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
butte f (plural buttes)
- small hill, mound, hillock; knoll
- heap
- Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.
- Make a heap around the potato plants.
- (archery) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting
- (by extension, figurative) butt, target
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: butte
Further reading[edit]
- “butte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
butte
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butte
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butte
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