butte
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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 [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
Translations
hill
Further reading
Danish
Adjective
butte
French
Etymology
Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Descendants
- → English: butte
Further reading
- “butte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
butte
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
butte
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