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MACKENZIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea
Synonyms:
Mackenzie; Mackenzie River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Mackenzie" is a part of...):
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)
Synonyms:
Mackenzie; Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Context examples:
After a few days, sober and bankrupt, Grey Beaver departed up the Porcupine on his long journey to the Mackenzie.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In the third year of his life there came a great famine to the Mackenzie Indians.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
White Fang was intelligent beyond the average of his kind; yet his mental vision was not wide enough to embrace the other bank of the Mackenzie.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Just now he ran blindly, his own bank of the Mackenzie alone entering into his calculations.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Grey Beaver had intended camping that night on the far bank of the Mackenzie, for it was in that direction that the hunting lay.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They went down the valley of the stream, far beyond White Fang's widest ranging, until they came to the end of the valley, where the stream ran into the Mackenzie River.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Three Eagles was going away on a trip up the Mackenzie to the Great Slave Lake.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mackenzie hounds, Eskimo and Labrador dogs, huskies and Malemutes—all tried it on him, and all failed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The she-wolf, the young leader on her left, and the one-eyed elder on her right, led their half of the pack down to the Mackenzie River and across into the lake country to the east. Each day this remnant of the pack dwindled.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They did not remain in one place, but travelled across country until they regained the Mackenzie River, down which they slowly went, leaving it often to hunt game along the small streams that entered it, but always returning to it again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
