Associations to the word «Selkirk»

Wiktionary

SELKIRK, proper noun. A town in the Scottish Borders region.
SELKIRK, proper noun. A city in Manitoba, Canada
SELKIRK REX, noun. A domestic cat breed.

Dictionary definition

SELKIRK, noun. Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin