butte
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Definition of butte
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: an isolated hill or mountain with steep or precipitous sides usually having a smaller summit area than a mesa
Butte
geographical name
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Definition of Butte (Entry 2 of 2)
city in southwestern Montana on a plateau in the Rockies population 32,996
Examples of butte in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Curiosity took images on September 9, 2015, of Mount Sharp, a hematite-rich ridge, a plain full of clay minerals to create a composite and rounded buttes high in sulfate minerals. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Life may have existed on warm, rainy, ancient Mars before winter came," 20 Aug. 2019 The West is a saga of God and commerce, homesteaders and cowboys, politicians and opportunists, wagon trains and slaughtered natives, grizzlies and coyotes, and mesas, buttes and gorges. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: The American West is dying. Christopher Ketcham’s ‘This Land’ is a rallying cry to save it," 26 July 2019 The camera can’t capture the stunning vastness of the expanse, and the sky is too bright, which makes the vibrant golden tones of the mesas and buttes look blue. — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, "Everyone wants to Instagram the world’s most beautiful canyon. Should they?," 11 July 2019 Curiosity took images on September 9, 2015, of Mount Sharp, a hematite-rich ridge, a plain full of clay minerals to create a composite and rounded buttes high in sulfate minerals. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Curiosity rover makes new discoveries on Mars," 6 Aug. 2019 And Umatilla Rock, a dramatic butte, wouldn’t be out of place in Monument Valley, Utah. — John Nelson, Los Angeles Times, "The Ice Age gives birth to a wine and adventure age in Washington state," 20 July 2019 Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park The iconic landscape of Monument Valley symbolizes the American West worldwide with its towering buttes and sweeping skies. — Steve Larese, National Geographic, "Eight epic stops in the Four Corners region," 27 June 2019 This 550-mile meandering drive winds from the grasslands and canyons of North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the state’s southern twin and the buttes and spires of Badlands National Park. — The Editors, Outside Online, "The Best Road Trips in North America," 10 June 2019 A century after Teddy's death, Medora stands on the edge of what is now Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a sprawling space of winding buttes and open grasslands perfect for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, "The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2019," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'butte.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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butte
noun
English Language Learners Definition of butte
: a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S.
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butte
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Kids Definition of butte
: an isolated hill with steep sides
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