Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of Yukon Territory, Canada, just east of Alaska and traversed by the Klondike River, about 160 km (100 mi) long. Gold was discovered here in August 1896, leading to the gold rush of 1897–1898 in which more than 30,000 people sought their fortune in the frozen north.
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- noun figuratively A source of
wealth or something elsevaluable . - proper noun A
region andriver in the Yukon Territory ofCanada . - proper noun card games A particular
solitaire card game , requiringordering randomly orderedcards according torank .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
- noun 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
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Examples
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The wheat output of Argentine or the gold of Klondike is known wherever men meet and trade.
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"The Klondike is not all the world, and the best is yet to come."
CHAPTER 21 2010
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Dan Davidson, "'Jack London was not a racist,' says American Scholar" in Klondike Sun October 2, 1997: 1-3.
Links to Jack London Related Sites: The World of Jack London 2010
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The effects of all this are obvious, and no fitter illustration may be presented than the fact that to-day, in the matter of communication, the Klondike is virtually nearer to Boston than was
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She had even been in Klondike, ten years before, in a half-dozen flashing sentences picturing the fur-clad, be-moccasined miners sowing the barroom floors with thousands of dollars 'worth of gold dust.
CHAPTER II 2010
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All of which may be ancient history so far as the Klondike is concerned, but very few, even in Dawson, know the inner truth of the matter; nor beyond those few are there any fit to measure the wife of the captain or the Greek dancer.
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I oughter 'a ben in Klondike by now, if I'd had any luck at all.
CHAPTER I 2010
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When he returned from the gold-strike in Klondike he came, as was his wont, to the large house to make report to old Klakee-Nah of all the world that he had seen; and there he first saw El-Soo, three years back from the Mission.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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All of which may be ancient history so far as the Klondike is concerned, but very few, even in Dawson, know the inner truth of the matter; nor beyond those few are there any fit to measure the wife of the captain or the Greek dancer.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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This material can compare to the ones you got from being in Klondike; it's just as original.
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