YELLOWKNIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yellowknife mean? 

• YELLOWKNIFE (noun)
  The noun YELLOWKNIFE has 1 sense:

1. a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake

  Familiarity information: YELLOWKNIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOWKNIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Yellowknife" is a part of...):

Northwest Territories (a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut)

 Context examples 

The mission's first two drilled samples, in an area called Yellowknife Bay near Curiosity's landing site, yielded evidence last year for an ancient lakebed environment with available energy and ingredients favorable for microbial life.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)

The team found evidence for nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the Rocknest site, and in samples drilled from mudstone at the John Klein and Cumberland drill sites in Yellowknife Bay.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)