Term: gold standard: a paragon of excellence
Candidate hypernym: paragon: an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept → 1
Candidate hypernym: dog shit: fecal droppings from a dog → 0
Candidate hypernym: cookstove: a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) → 0
Candidate hypernym: tombac: an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding → 0
Candidate hypernym: hevea: small genus of South American trees yielding latex → 0
Candidate hypernym: marsh gas: methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water → 0
Candidate hypernym: ignorance: the lack of knowledge or education → 0
Candidate hypernym: fluosilicic acid: an unstable poisonous corrosive acid known primarily in the form of its salts → 0
Candidate hypernym: weeping spruce: medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches → 0
Candidate hypernym: omnidirectional antenna: an antenna that sends or receives signals equally in all directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: immaculate conception: Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854 → 0