Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: alaska
IPA transcription: [əl'æskə]
Pronunciations of alaska
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noun meaning of the word
  • 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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Kira Buckland, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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