Klondike
Americannoun
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a region of the Yukon territory in NW Canada: gold rush 1897–98.
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a river in this region, flowing into the Yukon. 90 miles (145 km) long.
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(lowercase) a variety of solitaire.
noun
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a region of NW Canada, in the Yukon in the basin of the Klondike River: site of rich gold deposits, discovered in 1896 but largely exhausted by 1910. Area: about 2100 sq km (800 sq miles)
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a river in NW Canada, rising in the Yukon and flowing west to the Yukon River. Length: about 145 km (90 miles)
Example Sentences
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It said someone named Shirley had asked him to buy Klondike bars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Its people, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, were displaced after the Klondike gold rush brought nearly 17,000 new settlers.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024
As scarce as born-and-bred Washingtonians have become in Seattle, it still can’t compare to the Klondike gold rush days, when hardly anyone was from here.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023
“It’s like being in the Klondike now,” says Dalhousie ecologist Hugh MacIntyre, referring to the gold rush that brought prospectors to remote northwestern Canada in the 1890s.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023
The man who had owned the office before, an insurance salesman named Alan Klondike, had been the pipe smoker.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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