Butte Definition

byo͝ot
noun
A steep, flat-topped hill surrounded by a plain, esp. in the W U.S.; a remnant of a mesa; small mesa.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A city in Montana.

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Noun

Singular:
butte
Plural:
buttes

Origin of Butte

  • French from Old French butt mound behind targets butt3

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French butte.

    From Wiktionary

Butte Sentence Examples

  • The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway carries ore from the mines at Butte to the smelters at Anaconda.

  • Other discoveries about Butte followed, and the output of copper increased from I I,01I long tons in 1883 to 129,805 long tons in 1906, more than 99.6% from Silverbow county.

  • The first railway was the Oregon Short Line, which was completed by the Union Pacific Company from Ogden, Utah, to Butte in 1881.

  • The state educational institutions are the university of Montana (1895), at Missoula, the normal college at Dillon, the college of agriculture and mechanic arts (1893) at Bozeman; and the school of mines (1900) at Butte.

  • Extensive deposits are mined in the United States, particularly at Butte in Montana, and in Namaqualand, South Africa.

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