BUTTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Butte mean? 

• BUTTE (noun)
  The noun BUTTE has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: BUTTE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("butte" is a kind of...):

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Domain region:

West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Butte" is a part of...):

Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)

 Context examples 

The butte stands about 16 feet (5 meters) high.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)

As of this week, Curiosity has exited these buttes toward the south, driving up to the base of the final butte on its way out.

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)

The rover works near this butte in an image taken on April 11 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)

Scientists using NASA's Curiosity Mars rover are eyeing a rock layer surrounding the base of a small butte, called Mount Remarkable, as a target for investigating with tools on the rover's robotic arm.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)