Found 2 items, similar to Butte.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: butte
butte
n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has
a flat top and sloping sides
2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Butte
Butte
\Butte\, n. [F. See
Butt a bound.]
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the
general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to
peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
[1913 Webster]
The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red
conglomerate. --Ruxton.
[1913 Webster]