klondike
klondike Lexical Profile
klondike Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The most common variant of the one-player card game solitaire (patience), in which seven tableau piles are dealt with the top cards face up and players build four foundation piles in ascending sequence by suit from ace to king.
"She passed the quiet afternoon on the train by playing several rounds of Klondike with a standard deck of cards."
A tributary of the Yukon River in northwestern Canada and the surrounding region in the Yukon territory, famous as the site of a major late-19th-century gold rush.
Any newly discovered region, enterprise, or source yielding sudden, abundant wealth or valuable resources.
"Early investors viewed the emerging renewable energy sector as a modern klondike of commercial opportunity."
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