noun
Klondike
KLON-dyk
noun
1
A source of sudden or unexpected wealth, from the Klondike gold rush.
"The oil discovery turned the sleepy town into a klondike overnight."
2
A solitaire card game in which cards are sorted by rank from a shuffled deck.
"She played a round of klondike to pass the time on the flight."
How to Use Klondike
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a windfall of riches (from the historic gold rush) or a classic solitaire card game named after it.
Word Forms
klondiked past tense, Klondikes plural, klondikes singular
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Etymology
Named after the Klondike River region in Yukon, Canada, site of a famous 1890s gold rush. The river's name comes from a local Indigenous word roughly meaning "hammerstone water."