{
  "id": "european.regional",
  "term": "european",
  "sense": "regional",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "european",
  "domain": "regional",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about the region Europe and the people who live in it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "region.spatial",
      "people.social",
      "europe.region",
      "live.biological"
    ],
    "interaction": "the region and its people together form a single entity shaped by their ongoing coexistence",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared regional identity",
      "cultural interdependence",
      "collective geographic belonging"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Schengen Agreement allows passport-free travel across 27 European countries since 1995.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Eurotunnel connects France and the UK under the English Channel, operating since 1994.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The European Court of Human Rights ruled on the 2010 case of Oliari v. Italy regarding LGBTQ+ rights.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "region.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "european",
    "europeans"
  ],
  "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 incomplete without anchoring to europe.region and live.biological; components added to reflect actual emergence"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-european.regional"
}