butte
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butte¹
- /ˈbjuːt/
- /ˈbʌt/ Southern US
Sounds like beaut · Rhymes with -uːt
Where it comes from
PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
noun buttes
- An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. Then he set his course straight for a butte called Where the Eagles Rest.
Butte²
Where it comes from
Perhaps a variant spelling of Butt.
proper noun 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: poti, anaconda, petit, moulins, buttle, butts, buttleman, bozeman, burnet, beaver, bute, beuren, burgett, bunten, burston, buncombe
Translations
Talk about this word "butte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/butte. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. butte. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/butte "butte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/butte.Cite this
@misc{butte_2026,
title = {butte},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/butte},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
