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say it: KLAHN-dahyk
klondike is a noun meaning "a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910". It is pronounced /ˈklɑnˌdaɪk/ — KLAHN-dahyk. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for klondike come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.