{
  "id": "british.national",
  "term": "british",
  "sense": "national",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "british",
  "domain": "nation.political",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "of the nation and its people that are in the place britain",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "nation.political",
      "people.social",
      "space.extent",
      "britain.political"
    ],
    "interaction": "the nation and its people be in the place britain and have a shared state as british",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared national identity",
      "geopolitical belonging",
      "cultural cohesion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The British Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1922 as a state-backed radio service for the UK public.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "British Rail operated the UK's national railway system from 1948 until its privatization in the 1990s.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The British Antarctic Survey maintains research stations like Rothera on the Antarctic Peninsula.",
      "domain": "science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "british"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added britain.political to components since the definition centrally references being in Britain, which is not fully captured by space.extent alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-british.national"
}