klondike

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank
A region and river in the Yukon Territory of Canada
A source of wealth or something else valuable
an area in northwest Canada, in the Yukon. Gold was discovered there in the 1890s, and this caused a gold rush (=when many people go to an area to look for gold)
{i} region in the northwestern Yukon (Canada); river that flows into the Yukon river; town in Texas (USA); type of solitaire card game
a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
Klondike Gold Rush
mass migration of people to northwestern Canada in search of gold which started in 1897
Klondike gold rush
Canadian gold rush of the late 1890s. Gold was discovered on Aug. 17, 1896, near the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers in western Yukon Territory. The news spread quickly, and by late 1898 more than 30,000 prospectors had arrived. Annual production peaked at $22 million worth of gold in 1900, and soon prospectors began moving on to Alaska. By the time mining ended in 1966, the area had yielded $250 million in gold
klondike

    الواصلة

    Klon·dike

    التركية النطق

    kländayk

    النطق

    /ˈklänˌdīk/ /ˈklɑːnˌdaɪk/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () From Klondike, a region in the Yukon territory of Canada that saw a gold rush.
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