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butte

noun
/ˈbjuːt/

Etymology

PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.

  1. borrowed from butte

Definitions

  1. 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].

  2. A surname.

  3. A placename

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA