SITKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sitka mean? 

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

1. a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SITKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)

 Context examples 

And that was the year that Sitka Charley gave much money to the Mission at Holy Cross.

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

Sitka Charley has come in with two thousand letters on very last water.

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

And thus it was that I, Sitka Charley, saw the baby wolves make their kill. No word is spoken.

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

I am Sitka Charley, a strong man.

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

'You are Sitka Charley,' she says.

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

"There are no chips on the table," Sitka Charley explained.

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

Sitka Charley looked at me in swift surprise, then back at the picture.

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

Even I, Sitka Charley, am greatly weary, and I think seven hundred and fifty dollars is a cheap price for the labor I do.

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

And Sitka Charley, standing upright, maybe falls down and stands upright again.

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

Know, Negore, if journey be added unto journey of all thy journeyings through this land, thou wouldst not come to the unknown Sitka on the Great Salt Sea.

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