butten.

Brit.

/bjuːt/, U.S.

/bjut/

Forms: 1800s but, 1800s bute, 1800s– butte.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French butte.

Etymology: < French butte butt n.¹³

North American.

Esp. in the western United States: an isolated hill with steep sides, which rises abruptly from a surrounding plain.A butte is similar to, but narrower than, a mesa (mesa n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > prominent or isolated

knoba1622

inch1799

butte1805

island-hill1839

island-mountain1906

inselberg1907

1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 22 May in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1904) II. 61 I walked out after dinner and assended a but a few miles (off) to view the countrey.

1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mts. xv. 205 He sees no clouds resting on the shoulders of lofty Butes..nor Tetons rearing their heads into the region of perpetual snow.

1851 J. Richardson Arctic Searching Exped. I. iv. 140 We passed the smaller Balsam Fir Island, below which there is a pretty little bute on the left.

1877 A. R. Conkling in G. M. Wheeler Ann. Rep. Geogr. Surv. West 100th Meridian 1299 Most of the buttes are conical in shape and rounded on top, but a few have the turreted form.

1880 Scribner's Monthly July 454 Broken down among the rocks of a stony bit of butte-road.

1911 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 1095/1 One immense flattened alluvial fan, spread from the debouchure of the Min over all the lower tract between the Szechuan Alps on the west and the buttes..to the east.

1984 S. Johnson Tunnel xiii. 123 They cruised on through a landscape which, with its mesas and buttes, grew progressively more lunar.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Aug. (Travel section) 11/1 Where a hiker could find water, skirt a butte or make camp.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	butte
释义	butten. Brit. /bjuːt/, U.S. /bjut/ Forms: 1800s but, 1800s bute, 1800s– butte. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French butte. Etymology: < French butte butt n.¹³ North American. Esp. in the western United States: an isolated hill with steep sides, which rises abruptly from a surrounding plain.A butte is similar to, but narrower than, a mesa (mesa n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > prominent or isolated knoba1622 inch1799 butte1805 island-hill1839 island-mountain1906 inselberg1907 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 22 May in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1904) II. 61 I walked out after dinner and assended a but a few miles (off) to view the countrey. 1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mts. xv. 205 He sees no clouds resting on the shoulders of lofty Butes..nor Tetons rearing their heads into the region of perpetual snow. 1851 J. Richardson Arctic Searching Exped. I. iv. 140 We passed the smaller Balsam Fir Island, below which there is a pretty little bute on the left. 1877 A. R. Conkling in G. M. Wheeler Ann. Rep. Geogr. Surv. West 100th Meridian 1299 Most of the buttes are conical in shape and rounded on top, but a few have the turreted form. 1880 Scribner's Monthly July 454 Broken down among the rocks of a stony bit of butte-road. 1911 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 1095/1 One immense flattened alluvial fan, spread from the debouchure of the Min over all the lower tract between the Szechuan Alps on the west and the buttes..to the east. 1984 S. Johnson Tunnel xiii. 123 They cruised on through a landscape which, with its mesas and buttes, grew progressively more lunar. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Aug. (Travel section) 11/1 Where a hiker could find water, skirt a butte or make camp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1805
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