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Definition of butte in English: buttenounbjuːt North American technical An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa). 〈北美，技〉孤山；平顶陡崖 Example sentencesExamples - The vista before me was a classic of the American West: red sandstone buttes rising from a valley floor, made redder still by the setting sun.
- From the edges of the valley, the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes.
- From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns.
- Over the past 80 million years, the sand and mud of the sauropod nesting grounds have solidified into sandstone and mudstone that are visible today as distinct bands or layers in the site's ridges, buttes, and ravines.
- Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands encompasses high mesas and buttes, burnt red sandstone pinnacles and arches, and a myriad of canyons and deep gorges cut by the Green and Colorado Rivers.
- It's sheer desert for three-hundred miles, with only hills and buttes to alleviate the nothingness.
- Mesa table-mountains and free-standing buttes flashed by, chocolate-coloured and beige, magenta and orange.
- The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest.
- He explained the difference between the mesas and buttes in the distance and challenged us to find images of birds, couples dancing joyfully, and snakes in the sticklike forms of petroglyphs.
- Most notably, the hills and buttes that mark the landscape are generally depicted in a descriptive shorthand, outlined in a single stroke, or suggested by a mass of a single color.
Synonyms high ground, rising ground, prominence, eminence, elevation, rise, hillock, mound, mount, knoll, hummock, tor, tump, fell, pike, mesa
OriginMid 19th century: from French, 'mound', from Old French but, of unknown origin (compare with butt2). Rhymesacute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute nounbyo͞otbjut North American technical An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa). 〈北美，技〉孤山；平顶陡崖 Example sentencesExamples - He explained the difference between the mesas and buttes in the distance and challenged us to find images of birds, couples dancing joyfully, and snakes in the sticklike forms of petroglyphs.
- Mesa table-mountains and free-standing buttes flashed by, chocolate-coloured and beige, magenta and orange.
- From the edges of the valley, the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes.
- The vista before me was a classic of the American West: red sandstone buttes rising from a valley floor, made redder still by the setting sun.
- Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands encompasses high mesas and buttes, burnt red sandstone pinnacles and arches, and a myriad of canyons and deep gorges cut by the Green and Colorado Rivers.
- It's sheer desert for three-hundred miles, with only hills and buttes to alleviate the nothingness.
- Most notably, the hills and buttes that mark the landscape are generally depicted in a descriptive shorthand, outlined in a single stroke, or suggested by a mass of a single color.
- From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns.
- Over the past 80 million years, the sand and mud of the sauropod nesting grounds have solidified into sandstone and mudstone that are visible today as distinct bands or layers in the site's ridges, buttes, and ravines.
- The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest.
Synonyms high ground, rising ground, prominence, eminence, elevation, rise, hillock, mound, mount, knoll, hummock, tor, tump, fell, pike, mesa
OriginMid 19th century: from French, ‘mound’, from Old French but, of unknown origin (compare with butt). proper nounbyo͞otbjut A city in southwestern Montana, noted as a mining center; population 32,119 (est. 2008).
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