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)
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)
Meaning:
A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Yukon Territory; Yukon
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)
