Klondike

See also: klondike

English

Klondike River (left) flowing into the Yukon River at Dawson City

Etymology

From Klondike, a region in the Yukon territory of Canada that saw a gold rush, named after the Klondike River. A corruption of Hän Tr'ondëk (“hammerstone water”) or Gwich'in throndiuk (“hammer-water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɒnˌdaɪk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈklɑːnˌdaɪk/

Proper noun

Klondike

1. A region and river in the Yukon Territory of Canada.
2. (card games) A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank.

Translations

a region and river in Canada

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克朗代克 (zh) (Kèlǎngdàikè)

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• Georgian: კლონდაიკი (ḳlondaiḳi)
• Japanese: クロンダイク (Kurondaiku)
• Russian: Клонда́йк (ru) m (Klondájk)

a card game

• Japanese: クロンダイク (Kurondaiku)
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Noun

Klondike (plural Klondikes)

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

   Synonym: klondike

   • 2008 April 14, Mark Landler, “Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     That reality is spreading. Once-sizzling housing markets in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states are cooling rapidly, as nervous Western Europeans stop buying investment properties in Warsaw, Tallinn, Estonia and other real estate Klondikes.

Further reading

• Klondike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Klondike Gold Rush on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Klondike”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.