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butte

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of butte

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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of butte

mesa, plateau, table, tableland

altitude(s), elevation, eminence, height, highland, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland

alp, mount, mountain, peak

bluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, tor

dome, sugarloaf

foothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of butte

dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley

canyon, gorge, ravine

basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater

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