Lexic.us

Definition of Klondike

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

2. 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.

Definition of Klondike

1. Noun. (figuratively) A source of wealth or something else valuable. ¹

2. Proper noun. A region and river in the Yukon Territory of Canada. ¹

3. Proper noun. (card games) A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank. ¹

4. Noun. (alternative form of Klondike) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Klondike

1. a card game [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Klondike

klipfish klipfishes klippel-feil syndrome klippot klipspringer klipspringers klismaphiles klismoi klismos klister

klisters klockmannite kloncilium klondike klondiked klondikes klondyke klondyked klondykes klong

klongs klonklave klonklaves klonvocation klonvocations klooch klooches kloof

Literary usage of Klondike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Along Alaska's Great River: A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska by Frederick Schwatka (1898)
"THE Klondike REGION. On page 244, Schwatka says: "We camped that night at the mouth of a noticeable stream coming in from the east, which we afterwards ..."

2. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The road ends at Mile 34, the junction with the South Klondike Highway. ... The South Klondike Highway Note: Miles are read from Skagway. ..."

3. Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals by Cleveland Public Library (1898)
"Klondike: how it may look in history. (T: B. Reed) I.lAm. 20:tHt¡-9(N20). ... Life in the Klondike gold fields. (JL Steffens) R of Rs. 16:335(5). ..."

4. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1901)
"The Klondike Stampede. By Tappen Adney. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. ... 321- 341) A Year's Progress in Hie Klondike. By Prof. ..."

5. Through the Yukon and Alaska by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1909)
"~rush to the Klondike, due to this discovery and to others ensued, was the greatest wave of adventure since the days 1849 and 1851, when California and ..."

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