name
Meaning 1
A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Whitehorse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Yukon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, US: /ˈjuː.kɑn/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.kɒn/
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homophone: UConn
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CMU ARPABET: Y UW1 K AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A river in northwest Canada and Alaska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A number of other places in the United States
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
A number of other places in the United States:
A city in Canadian County, Oklahoma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A GMC Yukon automobile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
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noun
Meaning 6
a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Yukon Territory
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
noun
Meaning 7
a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Yukon River
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: river
History
Etymology
From Gwich'in ųųg han, contraction of chųų gąįį han (“white water river”). See Wikipedia's name section for details.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: يُوكُون (yūkūn) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Armenian: Յուկոն — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Bengali: ইউকন (iukon) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Chinese Cantonese: 育空 — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Chinese Mandarin: 育空 (Yùkōng) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Czech: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Esperanto: Jukonio — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Esperanto: Jukon-teritorio — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- French: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Galician: Yukón — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Georgian: იუკონი (iuḳoni) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Greek: Γιούκον (Gioúkon) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Gwich'in: Ųųg Han — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Hungarian: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Italian: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Japanese: ユーコン (Yūkon) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Khmer: យូកុង (yuukong) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Korean: 유콘 — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Latin: Iuconus — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Polish: Jukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Portuguese: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Portuguese: Território de Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Russian: Ю́кон (Júkon) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Slovak: Yukon — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Spanish: Yukón — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Southern Tutchone: Chu Nìikwän — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
- Ukrainian: Ю́кон (Júkon) — territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital
Real reading context