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See definition of butte on Dictionary.com
  • as inhill
  • as inhillock
  • as inknoll
  • as inmesa
  • as inmountain

synonyms for butte

  • bluff
  • cliff
  • dune
  • highland
  • hillside
  • hilltop
  • ridge
  • slope
  • acclivity
  • ascent
  • climb
  • down
  • drift
  • elevation
  • eminence
  • esker
  • fell
  • gradient
  • headland
  • heap
  • height
  • hillock
  • hummock
  • inclination
  • incline
  • knoll
  • mesa
  • mound
  • mount
  • precipice
  • prominence
  • promontory
  • protuberance
  • range
  • rise
  • shock
  • stack
  • summit
  • talus
  • tor
  • upland
  • rising ground

antonyms for butte

MOST RELEVANT
  • bottom
  • decline
  • depression
  • nadir
  • canyon
  • ditch
  • gully
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    How to use butte in a sentence

    Wake up to beige buttes as far as the eye can see before cruising the 27 miles over to Capitol Reef.
    THE BEST HIPCAMP FOR EVERY NATIONAL PARKEMILY PENNINGTONMAY 19, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
    During her junior year of high school, Butte got involved with an organization in southeastern San Diego, Outdoor Outreach, that links youth from communities like hers to the outdoors.
    GROUPS PUSH STATE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA’S OUTDOOR SPACES MORE ACCESSIBLEMAYA SRIKRISHNANMARCH 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
    Outdoor Outreach, the organization that first introduced Butte to the outdoors in San Diego, is part of the Parks Now coalition that sponsored SB 624.
    GROUPS PUSH STATE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA’S OUTDOOR SPACES MORE ACCESSIBLEMAYA SRIKRISHNANMARCH 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
    “Communities like mine have not been able to access outdoor space for economic reasons, but also historically, communities of color haven’t been accepted into outdoor spaces, and things like surfing and hiking,” Butte said.
    GROUPS PUSH STATE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA’S OUTDOOR SPACES MORE ACCESSIBLEMAYA SRIKRISHNANMARCH 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
    Butte, who grew up in Paradise Hills and continues to live there, said that as a kid, the parks closest to her home often felt unsafe, and her family didn’t have a car to drive to nicer ones farther away.
    GROUPS PUSH STATE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA’S OUTDOOR SPACES MORE ACCESSIBLEMAYA SRIKRISHNANMARCH 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
    He dashed off at a full run for the butte, closely followed by Texas Smith and Coronado.
    OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
    The lesser one remained flitting about the house, or to and fro between here and Antelope Butte.
    A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERET
    It was a bluff or butte of limestone which innumerable years had converted into marl, and for the most part into earth.
    OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
    With his field-glass Thurstane discovered what he judged to be another similar structure crowning a distant butte.
    OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
    This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.
    PRAIRIE SMOKE (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)MELVIN RANDOLPH GILMORE
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