butte

See also: Butte and butté

English

Buttes

Etymology

A butte.

Borrowed 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:
      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

Danish

Adjective

butte

  1. definite of but
  2. plural of but

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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    (literally, “Building a "butte" around potato plants.”)

Synonyms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt
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