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DAWSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Dawson" is a part of...):
Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)
Context examples:
Joe Dawson thought visibly for a moment.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Dawson had retired.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“All the same, we’ll go on to Dawson.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
At Dawson comes the man. Which way he come I do not know. Only do I know he is checha-quo—what you call tenderfoot.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When the steamboat arrived at Dawson, White Fang went ashore.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Get out of my way, or I’ll fix you. I’m going to Dawson.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It is the freeze-up, and there is Dawson.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was the summer of 1898, and thousands of gold-hunters were going up the Yukon to Dawson and the Klondike.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They had seen other sleds depart over the Pass for Dawson, or come in from Dawson, but never had they seen a sled with so many as fourteen dogs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Canoe smash and stop right at Dawson.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
