butte
/ˈbjuːt/
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Southern US/ˈbʌt/
butte noun: an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
Noun
butte (plural buttes)
- An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- 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].2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, in The New York Times
Proper noun capitalized: Butte
Butte (countable and uncountable, plural Buttes)
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States, with which it is a consolidated city-county known as Butte-Silver Bow.
- A village, the county seat of Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
- A city and village in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.
butte meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Arabic and Thai
butte in Tamil
- மொட்டைக் குன்று, மொட்டைக்குன்று
butte in Malayalam
- ബുട്ടെ
butte in Arabic
- hill
- شاهد صخري
butte in Thai
- hill
- เนินยอดป้าน
Forms of butte
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | buttes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Buttes |
Origin of butte
PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
Perhaps a variant spelling of Butt.
Words formed from butte
Phrases with butte
Words that rhyme with butte
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- cheroot
Questions about butte
- What does butte mean?
- Butte means an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- What is butte in Tamil?
- Butte in Tamil is மொட்டைக் குன்று, மொட்டைக்குன்று. See Butte meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is butte?
- Butte can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce butte?
- Butte is pronounced /ˈbjuːt/.
- What is the plural of butte?
- The plural of butte is buttes.
Words near butte in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: butte (page history and authors); Butte (page history and authors); butte (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); butte (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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