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butte::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | hill |
butte::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of butte
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Watch the Angels play at Tempe Diablo Stadium, set below a golden desert butte.
From the latimes.com
What would you do with 20 minutes atop a lofty sandstone butte above Lake Powell?
From the latimes.com
It sat atop a 200-foot butte and overlooked the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
From the washingtonpost.com
The tribes starved the Indians atop the butte, thus giving the area its name.
From the time.com
Visitors reach the town first, located on the butte for which it is named.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Butte hit bottom in 1982, when ARCO shut down the Berkeley Pit and flooded the mines.
From the theatlantic.com
Butte has been tested only once, in a 28-14 victory against San Francisco.
From the fresnobee.com
They're as weathered and craggily handsome as any butte in Monument Valley.
From the time.com
Butte and his wife, Carol, aka Sunshine, have worked as clowns for decades.
From the sltrib.com
- A hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
- A town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
- A butte is a conspicuous isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; it is smaller than mesas, plateaus, and tables. In some regions, such as the north central and northwestern United States, the word is used for any hill. ...
- Butte is a city in Montana and the county seat of Silver Bow County, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of The City and County of Butte-Silver Bow. As of the 2000 census, Butte's population was 33,892.
- An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
- A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides. Probably formerly a mesa.
- A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes.
- An isolated hill or mountain with steep or precipitous sides, usually having a smaller summit area than a mesa.
- An isolated, usually flat-topped upland mass characterized by summit widths that are less than heights of the bounding
