Klondike

Meanings

Proper Noun

• river Yukon Territory (province) Canada (country)
• region Yukon (province) Canada (country), surrounding the river, in and around Dawson City, replete with goldfields
• A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank.

Noun

• A source of wealth or something else valuable.

Origin

• From Klondike, a region in the Yukon territory of Canada that saw a gold rush, named after the Klondike River. A corruption of Hän Tr'ondëk ("hammerstone water") or Gwich'in throndiuk ("hammer-water").