{
  "id": "college.education",
  "term": "college",
  "sense": "education",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "college",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a school where students receive higher education",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "school.education",
      "students.group",
      "education.learning",
      "high.spatial",
      "receive.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "students are in a school to receive higher education",
    "novel_properties": [
      "advanced curriculum",
      "degree granting",
      "formal credentialing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Harvard University admitted its first students in 1636 to study theology, law, and classical languages in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Open University in the UK delivered its first distance-learning courses to 24,000 students in 1971 via BBC broadcasts.",
      "domain": "education"
    },
    {
      "text": "IIT Bombay began offering undergraduate engineering degrees in 1958, funded by the Indian government and Soviet technical aid.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "school.education",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "college",
    "colleges"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually correct but the record omitted constitutive concepts like learning, receiving, and 'higher' as spatial metaphor; added missing components to reflect what the concept actually "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-college.education"
}