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Definition of Klondike
1. Noun. A region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910.
Group relationships: Yukon, Yukon Territory
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
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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