BUTTE Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

butte

noun

Definition of butte

as in mountain

a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S. The otherworldly sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, Arizona are well worth a visit.

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Recent Examples of butte Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes. — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026 The unique red rock buttes often show up in movies, calendars and magazines. — Staff, USA Today, 8 June 2026 The 244,000-acre park features a unique landscape of eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires, and contains one of the world’s richest fossil beds. — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2026 Inactive volcanic buttes dot the city, providing good hill-climbing tests. — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for butte

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Noun

This week's quiz highlights Hollywood health, mountain missions — and a lot more.

— Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Authorities have also warned of potential further collapse around the glacier on Langtang Lirung mountain in Nepal, which cracked and broke off, triggering the August 26 landslide and flooding.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of mountain

Noun

Yet further down in Dana Point is where the crowds thin out and the gorgeous coastline of rocky cliffs, endless beaches, and bright blue ocean waves come into focus.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026
Single-Node Contention Under Concurrent Agent Queries A distributed, scale-out architecture spreads those concurrent operations across many nodes, so adding agents means adding capacity rather than going off a cliff.

— Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of cliff

Noun

Los Alamos, not far from Santa Fe, sits at the foot of Pajarito Mountain in a land of canyons and mesas.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Beginning in the late 1960s, artists abandoned galleries in favour of deserts, salt flats, mesas, and remote terrain, using these surroundings as both setting and material.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026

Definition of mesa

Noun

Rather than following the Ring Road, a 4x4 safari ventures deep into the highlands and across isolated farmlands.

— Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
My walk took me over the peaks and ridges of the Eastern highlands, on a narrow footpath that rose and fell thousands of feet in the course of an average day.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of highland

Noun

But in Southern California’s wealthy foothill enclaves, event promoters are regularly transforming these types of regal estates into weekend party houses filled with young people who are willing to pay to enter.

— Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Go wine tasting right in town, or do your research and drive the Nevada County foothill roads to a few local wineries with pretty tasting rooms.

— Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026

Definition of foothill

Noun

But another frontier remains to be realized, one in which MU ascends from this fine plateau to make good on the sort of top-tier promise implied by the school’s now-enormous commitment to football.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
For instance, it’s been rumored by Fixed Focus Digital that camera upgrades may lead to a thicker camera plateau.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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