butte

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English[edit]

Buttes in Monument Valley

Etymology[edit]

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from French butte (mound).

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Noun[edit]

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”, 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].

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 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, →DOI, →ISBN, § 10, page 38.

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Danish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

butte

  1. definite of but
  2. plural of but

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Feminine form of but (aim, target).

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Noun[edit]

butte f (plural buttes)

  1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll
    Synonyms: colline, tertre, motte
  2. heap
    Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.
    Make a heap around the potato plants.
  3. (archery) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting
  4. (by extension, figurative) butt, target

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  • English: butte

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

butte

  1. ablative singular of buttis

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Adjective[edit]

butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Adjective[edit]

butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt