{
  "id": "friend.social",
  "term": "friend",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who interacts with another person, shares support and care, and likes being together.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "interaction.process",
      "support.assistance",
      "care.emotional",
      "interacting.social",
      "like.similarity",
      "share.distribution"
    ],
    "interaction": "People engage in mutual interaction, share resources and emotional care, and recognize similarity, reinforcing social bonds.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual affection",
      "reciprocal presence",
      "emotional attunement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Maria and Jin texted daily, met weekly for coffee, and lent each other money without tracking repayment.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1971 Apollo 15 crew maintained real-time voice friendship despite 384,000 km separation during lunar orbit.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel developers’ mutual code reviews and personal encouragement sustained collaboration across 20 years.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "friend",
    "friends"
  ],
  "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 — relied on concepts not listed in components. Missing constitutive components added to align with actual conceptual structure."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friend.social"
}