YUKON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yukon mean? 

• YUKON (noun)
  The noun YUKON has 2 senses:

1. a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea

2. a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s

  Familiarity information: YUKON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YUKON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Yukon; Yukon River

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Yukon; Yukon Territory

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)

 Context examples 

At last we came to Pastolik, which is where the Yukon drowns itself in the Great Fog Sea.

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

But in two days’ time they dropped down the Yukon bank from the Barracks, loaded with letters for the outside.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A small number of white men lived in Fort Yukon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So I harness the dogs, and we start down the Yukon.

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

Furthermore, there was no dog like him on the Mackenzie nor the Yukon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Seven days from the time they pulled into Dawson, they dropped down the steep bank by the Barracks to the Yukon Trail, and pulled for Dyea and Salt Water.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Save in the white man's fire-boat which is of iron and is bigger than twenty steamboats on the Yukon," said Ebbits.

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

It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They made Sixty Mile, which is a fifty-mile run, on the first day; and the second day saw them booming up the Yukon well on their way to Pelly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I do not know the Yukon is so big river, but Yamikan has seen with his own eyes.

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