Butte

Definitions

1. An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
   US
2. A surname.
   countable
3. A placename
   countable, uncountable
4. A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
   countable, uncountable
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. A village, the county seat of Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
   countable, uncountable
7. A city and village in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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].”

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