Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting an area of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon and northern California, with close cultural ties to the Modoc.
- noun The Penutian language of the Klamath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any member of a
Native American tribe formerly living along the Klamath River inCalifornia andOregon . - proper noun The
language of this tribe (also known as Klamath-Modoc ). - proper noun A
county in NorthernCalifornia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean
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Examples
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It wouldnt be long before satellite trucks from all the major news networks would be camped out in Klamath Falls.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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Slader added that the late Bishop Francis Leipzig sent Hazen to Milwaukee, Wis., for treatment, and after a year assigned him without supervision to a church in Klamath Falls, where he continued to molest boys for 10 years.
Judge bars dispersal of church assets in Oregon priest abuse case 2003
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"Klamath" - the way Home Depot and Wal-Mart went in says "Generic Anywhere USA."
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"Klamath" - the way Home Depot and Wal-Mart went in says "Generic Anywhere USA."
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"Klamath" - the way Home Depot and Wal-Mart went in says "Generic Anywhere USA."
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The handsome book reprints thirteen poems from Near Klamath, which is probably why Carver dedicated it to Dennis Schmitz and used the same epigraph from Kafka that had appeared in the earlier book.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Yurok lived along this river, now called the Klamath River.
UMAI AND THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WATER Maggie Jochild 2007
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Leaving the Dalles, Frémont followed up the Des Chutes River to its headwaters in southeastern Oregon, thence he crossed over the divide to the waters of the Klamath, which he followed southward to what is known as Klamath Marsh.
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A suggestion, not yet a conclusion, as to this name Klamath may be made here.
Journal of Peter Skene Ogden; Snake Expedition, 1826-1827 1827
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Dominic Della Sala: "Denmark fits within a bioregion, an eco-region known as the Klamath-Siskyou, which is considered world-class by a number of ecological measures, the conifer richness, the uniqueness of place and the unusual number of species known nowhere else on Earth."
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