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Vinony

butte

noun

  1. isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːt/ / /ˈbʌt/

name

Etymology: Perhaps a variant spelling of Butt.

  1. A surname.
  2. A placename
  3. A placename
  4. A placename
  5. A placename

noun

Etymology: PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.

  1. An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

    “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].”