Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A territory of northwest Canada east of Alaska. It became a territory in 1898 at the height of the Klondike gold rush. Whitehorse is the capital and the largest city.
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- proper noun Territory in northern
Canada which hasWhitehorse as its capital.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
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Examples
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The name Yukon Territory may also be used, although this usage is disputed by residents of the territory.
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WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory—Denis Jacob has been staking claims for gold-company clients since 1975.
The Stakes Are Real in the Yukon as a Modern Gold Rush Is On Chip Cummins 2011
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The gold rush town of Dawson City, Yukon Territory was assembled in weeks with all the vitality of an urban place.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Striking Images Reclaim the Urban Memory 2010
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The gold rush town of Dawson City, Yukon Territory was assembled in weeks with all the vitality of an urban place.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Striking Images Reclaim the Urban Memory 2010
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Legend and landscape: convergence of oral and scientific traditions in the Yukon Territory.
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The social life of stories: narrative and knowledge in the Yukon Territory.
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The northernmost ecoregion in the United States is bounded on the north and the west by the Arctic Ocean and stretches eastward nearly to the international boundary between Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Canada.
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The social life of stories: narrative and knowledge in the Yukon Territory.
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The east-west extent of the ecoregion stretches from the international boundary between Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Canada, to the Chukchi Sea.
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Holocene glaciation of Alaska (and adjoining Yukon Territory, Canada).
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