{
  "id": "american.national",
  "term": "american",
  "sense": "national",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "american",
  "domain": "national",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is of the people and the place that are national",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "national.political",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the people together with the political sense and shared space form a set that is distinct from others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared territorial belonging",
      "collective national identity",
      "bounded civic community"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Stars and Stripes flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 bombardment that inspired Francis Scott Key.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed by the U.S. Congress, enforcing national protections against discrimination.",
      "domain": "political"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Alaska Purchase of 1867 transferred sovereignty from Russia to the United States for $7.2 million.",
      "domain": "space"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "american",
    "americans"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "added missing 'space.extent' as constitutive component; adjusted components and interaction accordingly"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-american.national"
}