Synonyms:
Alaska, Last_Frontier, AK
Meaning: a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"
Usage examples
But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.
But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.
We can't take Alaska down to the States--we've got to bring them up to us.
I tell you straight, I wouldn't risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska."
I suppose, in Alaska and in the South Sea Islands, all the medicine men were similarly upon trial.
"I can't be, after the ruin their unintelligent propaganda and legislation have brought upon Alaska.
But everything was deliciously fresh, and I found new and old plant friends, and lessons on Nature's Alaska moraine landscape-gardening that made everything bright and light.
It was to this glacier that the ships of the Alaska Ice Company resorted for the ice they carried to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and, I believe, also to China and Japan.
Many of these were Indians, some of whom would come for a thousand miles down the coast from British Columbia and even the confines of Alaska; they came in the great cedar-log canoes manned with twenty paddlers or more.
Avoid it as you would shun a deadly dull bore. The "idle rich" can have half-a-dozen homes, command all the varieties of foods gathered from the four corners of the earth, and sail for Africa or Alaska at their pleasure; but the poverty-stricken man must walk or take a street car--he does not have the choice of yacht, auto, or special train.