butt against

Questions about butt against

What does butt against mean?

butt against means "lie adjacent to another or share a boundary". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butt against?

Close synonyms include border, adjoin, edge, abut, march. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butt against a common word?

butt against is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.