different between butte vs canyon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: beaut

Noun

butte (plural buttes)

1. (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

   Coordinate term: mesa

Derived terms

• Box Butte County
• Butte County

Translations

Further reading

• butte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

butte

1. definite of but
2. plural of but

French

Etymology

Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byt/

Noun

butte f (plural buttes)

1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll

   Synonyms: colline, tertre

2. heap

Descendants

• ? English: butte

Further reading

• “butte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

English

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n?-y?n, IPA^(key): /?kænj?n/
• Rhymes: -ænj?n
• Hyphenation: can?yon

Noun

canyon (plural canyons)

1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
   • Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

Synonyms

• gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ancony

French

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

From Spanish cañón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.??n/

Noun

canyon m (plural canyons)

1. canyon