Yellowknife
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- proper noun
- You have a good chance to see the glowing sky in Yellowknife, according to Mark Stevens, a writer for Canada's tourism site.
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife, Canada
- Yellowknife Bay
Examples
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Austin Yoder's frequent flyer miles get him to Yellowknife, Canada, for spring break to see the northern lights.
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Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
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Sitting on a frozen lake in Yellowknife.
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Then I found a little city in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories: Yellowknife.
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Yellowknife alone attracted 47 percent of visitors, a fair proportion of whom were probably business travelers.
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Bed-and-breakfast facilities in private homes, especially in Yellowknife, Hay River, and Fort Smith, also burgeoned in the mid-1980s, as did the number of outfitter businesses.
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I live in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada (google that if you don't think I mean business), and we have local wolf packs sniffing around our strays and loose pets all the time in the winter.
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Two follow-up meetings in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in April 1990, and in Kiruna, Sweden, in January 1991, resulted in the development of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, which was adopted at a circumpolar ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi in June 1991.
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Broadly speaking, nonnatives tend to enjoy better education and income levels and to be based primarily in the urban centers with more than two thousand inhabitants: Yellowknife, Fort Smith, Hay River, Iqaluit, and Inuvik (NWT Legislative Assembly 1989, 12).
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I'm going down to Yellowknife to sign the papers now.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yellowknife comes from the name of a local Indigenous group, the Yellowknives, who used copper blades that looked 'yellow'. So the city was named for those people, and Yellowknife reminds us of the people and their yellow 'knives'.