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butte
/bjut/
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What does butte mean?
noun
- An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
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proper noun
- 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.
- A village, the county seat of Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
- A city and village in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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The ascent of Lassen’s Butte is an easy walk, and the views from the summit are extremely telling.
So we turned and rode hard around the north side of Hulmer's Butte, while the chase seemed to go round the south.
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Realize how many weary hours you must travel to gain the nearest butte, what days of toil the view from its top will disclose.
This sad memory was wiped out, however, by the interest of the banquet--a very delightful affair, attended by the mayor of Butte and other local dignitaries.
A good hunter whom I once knew, at a time when he was living in Butte, received fatal injuries from a bear he attacked in open woodland.