Look up: Butte

1. butte
   A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes.
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2. Butte
   Butte noun [ French 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. « The creek . . . passes by two rem...
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3. Butte
   noun a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
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4. butte
   noun a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
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5. butte
   a flat-topped landscape feature with steep sides that is surrounded on all sides by lower areas
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6. Butte
   • (n.) 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.
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7. butte
   flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep escarpment from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation ...
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8. Butte
   city, seat (1881) of Silver Bow county, southwestern Montana, U.S., on the western slope of the Continental Divide.[1 related articles]
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9. Butte
   A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides. Probably formerly a mesa.
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10. butte
    butte, an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top, resulting from the more rapid erosion of the surrounding areas. Buttes are characteristic of the plains of the W United States. See mesa.
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11. Butte
    Butte (byOOt) , city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. Mining dominated the city's life and economy from its establishment in 1862. Copper, as well as zinc, silver, manganese, gold, lead, molybdenum, and arsenic have been...
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12. Butte
    A butte is an isolated abrupt flat-topped hill found in the west USA.
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13. Butte
    Butte is a soft, white French cheese with a thick white natural mould rind, made from cow's milk.
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