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YUKON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Yukon"):
Dawson (a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike)
Klondike (a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910)
Whitehorse (the provincial capital of the Yukon Territory)
Logan; Mount Logan (a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high))
St. Elias Mountains; St. Elias Range (a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory)
Holonyms ("Yukon" is a part of...):
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
Synonyms:
Yukon; Yukon River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Yukon" is a part of...):
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Context examples:
It was the summer of 1898, and thousands of gold-hunters were going up the Yukon to Dawson and the Klondike.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In the spring, he went down the Yukon with the young men to trade at Cambell Fort.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was in the summer that White Fang arrived at Fort Yukon.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, Hey, you Buck, wake up!
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He started the dogs along the Yukon trail.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
White Fang remained on the Yukon, the property of a man more than half mad and all brute.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
All the time we go down Yukon in the ice.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
From the Yukon arose the hoarse bellowing of a river steamboat.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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