butte Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
  2. noun a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper

WordNet

Butte noun
Etymology
F. See Butt a bound.
Definitions
  1. 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 remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

Webster 1913