{
  "id": "february.calendar",
  "term": "february",
  "sense": "calendar",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "temporal",
  "domain": "calendar",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the month that is the second month of the year",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "month.temporal",
      "second.temporal",
      "year.time"
    ],
    "interaction": "the second place in the year’s order is the month",
    "novel_properties": [
      "specific date range",
      "winter season association",
      "leap day possibility"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2024, February had 29 days as part of the Gregorian calendar cycle.",
      "domain": "calendar"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1975 Haicheng earthquake prediction was issued during February, just before the quake struck.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "NASA launched the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in February for a seven-month transit.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "month.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "feb",
    "februaries",
    "february"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-february.calendar"
}