Klondike

klondike English thumb|Klondike River (left) flowing into the Yukon River at Dawson City Klondike (solitaire) Etymology From Klondike, Yukon Klondike, a region in the Yukon territory of Canada that saw a Klondike Gold Rush gold rush, named after the Klondike River. A corruption of en haa Tr'ondëk hammerstone water or en gwi throndiuk hammer-water. Pronunciation en /ˈklɒnˌdaɪk/ en /ˈklɑnˌdaɪk/ father-bother merger Proper noun en river terr/Yukon c/Canada. en region terr/Yukon c/Canada, surrounding the river, in and around en Dawson City, replete with goldfields. en the Klondike The Klondike en number of places c/USA: en unincorporated community co/DeKalb County s/Georgia. en unincorporated community co/Hall County s/Georgia. en unincorporated community co/Alexander County s/Illinois. en unincorporated community co/Tippecanoe County s/Indiana. en neighbourhood in eastern city/Louisville s/Kentucky. en unincorporated community/and/CDP co/Allegany County s/Maryland. en unincorporated community co/St. Charles County s/Missouri. en unincorporated community co/Sherman County s/Oregon. en unincorporated community co/McKean County s/Pennsylvania. en unincorporated community co/Dawson County s/Texas. en unincorporated community co/Delta County s/Texas. en Trotti, Texas. en unincorporated community co/Monongalia County co/West Virginia. en unincorporated community town/Brighton co/Kenosha County s/Wisconsin. en unincorporated community town/Brazeau co/Oconto County s/Wisconsin. en card games A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank. Derived terms en Klondicitis Klondiker Translations a region and river in Canada Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 克朗代克 Kèlǎngdàikè Georgian: ka კლონდაიკი Japanese: ja クロンダイク Kurondaiku Russian: ru Клонда́йк m a card game Japanese: ja クロンダイク Kurondaiku Tagalog: tl solitaryo Noun en figuratively A source of wealth or something else valuable. en klondike en 2008-04-14 Mark Landler Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14real.html That reality is spreading. Once-sizzling housing markets in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states are cooling rapidly, as nervous Western Europeans stop buying investment properties in Warsaw, Tallinn, Estonia and other real estate Klondikes. https://web.archive.org/web/20251019145041/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14real.html 19 October 2025 References Further reading Klondike Gold Rush