Term: barbary coast: a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849)
Candidate hypernym: city district: a district of a town or city → 1
Candidate hypernym: philomath: a lover of learning → 0
Candidate hypernym: big-cone spruce: douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long → 0
Candidate hypernym: book: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together → 0
Candidate hypernym: jack oak: small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes → 0
Candidate hypernym: practitioner: someone who practices a learned profession → 0
Candidate hypernym: wideness: the property of being wide; having great width → 0
Candidate hypernym: aerodynamic force: forces acting on airfoils in motion relative to the air (or other gaseous fluids) → 0
Candidate hypernym: popularity contest: competition (real or figurative) for popular support → 0
Candidate hypernym: khamti: a branch of the Tai languages → 0
Candidate hypernym: ptomaine: a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines → 0