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Meaning of Butte | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈbjuːt

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca qalıq
Català mola
Dansk butte
Deutsch Härtling
Français butte butte butté
Gaeilge buta
Italiano butte tacco
Português planalto
Türkçe tanık tepe

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].”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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