Butte
Pronunciation
- IPA: ˈbjut
Origin
Borrowing from fr butte.
Full definition of butte
Noun
butte
(plural buttes)- (US) an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
- 27 November 2013, John Grotzinger, The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36], Those multitoned buttes and mesas 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 Mars.