ALASKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alaska mean? 

• ALASKA (noun)
  The noun ALASKA has 1 sense:

1. a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

  Familiarity information: ALASKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALASKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier

Context example:

Alaska is the largest state in the United States

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Alaska"):

Sitka (a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906)

St. Elias Mountains; St. Elias Range (a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory)

Prudhoe Bay (a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968)

Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier (a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska)

Denali; McKinley; Mount McKinley; Mt. McKinley (a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high))

Kodiak; Kodiak Island (an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784)

Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)

Hubbard; Mount Hubbard (a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high))

Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)

Alaska Range (a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley)

Alaska Peninsula (a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands))

Alexander Archipelago (a group of islands off southeastern Alaska)

Seward Peninsula (a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle)

Valdez (a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world)

Skagway (a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush)

Alaskan pipeline; trans-Alaska pipeline (an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez)

Nome (a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century)

Anchorage (a city in south central Alaska)

capital of Alaska; Juneau (the state capital of Alaska)

Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (the largest national park of the United States; located in Alaska)

Lake Clark National Park (a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites)

Kobuk Valley National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites)

Kenai Fjords National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines)

Katmai National Park (a national park in Alaska featuring mountains)

Gates of the Arctic National Park (a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier)

Denali National Park (a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault)

Iditarod Trail (a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome)

Holonyms ("Alaska" is a part of...):

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)

Derivation:

Alaskan (relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska)

 Context examples 

The scientists were able to track the movement of populations from Alaska to as far south as Patagonia.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

That's bigger than the total land area of the state of Alaska — and makes Papahānaumokuākea larger than any other land or ocean conservation area on Earth.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

Until now, we've only thought of thermokarst lakes as positive contributors to climate warming, said lead researcher Katey Walter Anthony, associate research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Ben A. Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks led the archaeological team that made the discovery in late 2013 at an excavation of the Upward Sun River site.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With Alaska's warming climate, forests are moving upward to higher elevations and northward to higher latitudes.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

I tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Every state in the contiguous U.S. and Alaska experienced above-average annual temperatures.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

Also called: Tribal Health, Arctic Health, Alaska Native Health

(Native American Health, NIH)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

(Pacific Coast States, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.

(Pacific States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)