YUKON TERRITORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yukon Territory mean? 

• YUKON TERRITORY (noun)
  The noun YUKON TERRITORY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: YUKON TERRITORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YUKON TERRITORY (noun)

Sense 1

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 Territory"):

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 Territory" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)