butte
noun/ˈbjuːt/ · Southern-US /ˈbʌt/
Etymology PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
1
US 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:
- Derived terms
- Box Butte County, Butte County, Butte Creek, Butte Creek Canyon, Butte Falls, Butte Meadows, Butte Valley, Crested Butte, Hart Butte, Lone Butte, Mount Crested Butte, Nipple Butte