KLONDIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Klondike mean? 

• KLONDIKE (noun)
  The noun KLONDIKE has 2 senses:

1. a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910

2. 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

  Familiarity information: KLONDIKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KLONDIKE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

"We'd like to hear you tell about the Klondike," Madge said.

(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)

And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Back into that awful Klondike world of suffering?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They cooked for the master and washed the dishes and did other things just as Matt had done up in the Klondike.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

To be honest, I came into the Klondike because I thought it the place you were least liable to be in.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

With him came the first bull-dog that had ever entered the Klondike.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The canoe went very fast, it flew like a bird over the high waves. The woman was much afraid. 'What for you come Klondike much afraid?' I ask.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Different from the Mackenzie toboggans were the Klondike sleds with runners under them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)