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KLONDIKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("klondike" is a kind of...):
patience; solitaire (a card game played by one person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Klondike" is a part of...):
Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)
Context examples:
We travel up Klondike, up Bonanza and Eldorado, over to Indian River, to Sulphur Creek, to Dominion, back across divide to Gold Bottom and to Too Much Gold, and back to Dawson.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And here, in the Klondike, the leader was indeed the leader.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"But I can't understand his friendliness toward you—unless it's because you're from the Klondike. He's a Klondike dog, you know."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Why does she come into Klondike, all alone, with plenty of money? I do not know. Next day I ask her.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The gold-seeking tide was flooding northward into Alaska, and it was inevitable that Hans Nelson and his wife should he caught up by the stream and swept toward the Klondike.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"Yes," came the answer, "but I assure you I didn't come into the Klondike to practise."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"You're not her Klondike brother!" Madge cried, her eyes bright with interest, "about whom we've heard so much?"
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Mrs. Johnson, their nearest neighbor and the one who supplied them with milk, proclaimed him a Klondike dog.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"But in the picture there are many sun-dogs, and it comes into my mind to call it 'The Sun- Dog Trail.' It was a long time ago, seven years ago, the fall of '97, when I saw the woman first time. At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe. I came over Chilcoot Pass with two thousand letters for Dawson. I was letter carrier. Everybody rush to Klondike at that time. Many people on trail. Many people chop down trees and make boats. Last water, snow in the air, snow on the ground, ice on the lake, on the river ice in the eddies. Every day more snow, more ice. Maybe one day, maybe three days, maybe six days, any day maybe freeze-up come, then no more water, all ice, everybody walk, Dawson six hundred miles, long time walk. Boat go very quick. Everybody want to go boat. Everybody say, 'Charley, two hundred dollars you take me in canoe,' 'Charley, three hundred dollars,' 'Charley, four hundred dollars.' I say no, all the time I say no. I am letter carrier.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
