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Klondike

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Klon·dike  (klndk)
A region of Yukon Territory, Canada, just east of Alaska and traversed by the Klondike River, about 145 km (90 mi) long. Gold was discovered here in August 1896, leading to the gold rush of 1897-1898 in which more than 25,000 people sought their fortune in the frozen north. Small quantities of gold are still mined in the area.
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Noun1.KlondikeKlondike - a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
Yukon Territory, Yukon - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
2.klondike - 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
patience, solitaire - a card game played by one person


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They reached Circle City on the very day when some Siwash Indians came into the settlement with the report that there had been a rich gold strike farther up the river, on a certain Klondike Creek.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
When I state that I had passed coal on a steamship from Behring Sea to British Columbia, and travelled in the steerage from there to San Francisco, it will be understood that I brought nothing back from the Klondike but my scurvy.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
He had mushed dogs in the Klondike, washed gold from the sands of Nome, and edited a newspaper in San Francisco.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
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