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ALASKA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union
Example:
Alaska is the largest state in the United States
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Alaska"):
St. Elias Mountains; St. Elias Range (a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory)
Prudhoe Bay (a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968)
Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier (a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska)
Denali; McKinley; Mount McKinley; Mt. McKinley (a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high))
Kodiak; Kodiak Island (an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784)
Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)
Hubbard; Mount Hubbard (a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high))
Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)
Alaska Range (a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley)
Alaska Peninsula (a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands))
Alexander Archipelago (a group of islands off southeastern Alaska)
Seward Peninsula (a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle)
Valdez (a port on Alaska's southern coast from which oil is shipped to markets around the world)
Skagway (a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush)
Sitka (a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906)
Nome (a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century)
Anchorage (a city in south central Alaska)
capital of Alaska; Juneau (the state capital of Alaska)
Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (the largest national park of the United States; located in Alaska)
Lake Clark National Park (a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites)
Kobuk Valley National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites)
Kenai Fjords National Park (a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines)
Katmai National Park (a national park in Alaska featuring mountains)
Gates of the Arctic National Park (a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier)
Denali National Park (a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault)
Iditarod Trail (a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome)
Alaskan pipeline; trans-Alaska pipeline (an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez)
Holonyms ("Alaska" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Derivation:
Alaskan (relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska)
Context examples:
It is used mainly in Alaska and is chewed.
(Iq’mik, NCI Dictionary)
In Alaska, the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term.
(Inuit, NCI Thesaurus)
The research took place in tundra in the interior of Alaska near Denali National Park.
(Rising tundra temperatures lead to changes in microbial communities, National Science Foundation)
The native people inhabiting the Arctic of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, or eastern Siberia.
(Eskimo, NCI Thesaurus)
It is responsible for providing comprehensive health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives through IHS and tribally contracted hospitals, health centers, school health centers, and health stations.
(Indian Health Service, NCI Thesaurus)
He was on the edge of things, and throughout the winter he heard all Alaska calling to him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Located in the Brabazon Range of southeastern Alaska, Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers in the world.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
“It cannot be Alaska!” she cried.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A similar volcanic eruption in Alaska in 2008 was found to be associated with an increase in the local salmon population.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
For example, it reports temperatures in northern Canada and northwestern Alaska were two degrees centigrade above the average, indicating a very pronounced warming at the Arctic.
(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)
