Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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geographical area | Yes | No | No | No |
Barbary Coast | Yes | No | No | No |
geographical area (noun) | Barbary Coast (noun) |
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a demarcated area of the Earth | the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates |
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) | |
a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries |