alaska

CEFRB1

/əˈlæs.kə/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A state in the far northwest of the United States.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A peninsula in southwest Alaska, United States, in full the Alaska Peninsula.

Examples

  • Alaska wasn't even a state when I was born.

  • Here we took the boat for Alaska.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

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noun

Extra meanings

  1. Several places in the United States, named for the state or territory., A township in Beltrami County, Minnesota.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Alaska (“baked Alaska”).

More examples

In context

  • It isn't as cold here as in Alaska.

  • I dined at Delmonico's hard by the Fifth-avenue Hotel, a few nights ago; and among the dainties which that consummate caterer favoured us with, was an entremet called an "Alaska." The "Alaska" is a baked ice. A beau mentir qui vient de loin; but this is no tr...

  • Alaska was discovered about a century ago by Russian furhunters[.]

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Origin

noun

From Russian Аля́ска (Aljáska, “Alaska”), in turn from Aleut alaxsxaq (“a mainland”, literally “that toward which the action of the sea is directed”), composed of alag (“pertaining to the sea”) + -sxa (nominalizing suffix, yields 'the objective of action expressed by the root') + -q (nominalizing suffix). Commonly misattributed to Russian ала (ala) + -ский (-skij, adjectival suffix).