DAWSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dawson mean? 

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

1. a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAWSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)

 Context examples 

One night I am asleep at Dawson. He wake me up. He says, 'Get the dogs ready; we start.'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A hundred yards farther on, Buck came upon one of the sled-dogs Thornton had bought in Dawson.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Why should I not? And yet I hate to think of this old scandal gaining a new lease of life. Did you ever hear of Dawson and Neligan?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you open your mouth when you get back to Dawson, I'll have you run out of town. Understand?

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an' I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“What’s this, Dawson!” he cried.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And if you will stay another month complete, it will be in my power to take one of you as far as London, for I am going there early in June, for a week; and as Dawson does not object to the barouche-box, there will be very good room for one of you—and indeed, if the weather should happen to be cool, I should not object to taking you both, as you are neither of you large.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For that matter, they were all loafing,—Buck, John Thornton, and Skeet and Nig,—waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to Dawson.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The fall of 1897 found them at Dyea, but without the money to carry an outfit across Chilcoot Pass and float it down to Dawson.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Wait till I get back to Dawson," Beauty Smith threatened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)