{
  "id": "human.person",
  "term": "human",
  "sense": "person",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person that lives as life",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "life.biological"
    ],
    "interaction": "people.social and life.biological together make a person that thinks",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self‑awareness",
      "culture",
      "language"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie published groundbreaking work on radioactivity while managing a lab in Paris from 1906 to 913.",
      "domain": "science"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331 million people living in the United States.",
      "domain": "demographics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A nurse in Tokyo commutes daily to care for elderly patients at St. Luke's Hospital.",
      "domain": "everyday_life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "human is a person"
    },
    {
      "id": "life.biological",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "human is a biological life"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bed.furniture",
    "editor.role",
    "girls.human",
    "happy.emotional",
    "kids.human",
    "king.monarch",
    "natural.ordinary",
    "pleasure.feeling",
    "present.gift",
    "smith.metalwork",
    "submit.administrative",
    "voice.auditory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "human",
    "humans"
  ],
  "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-human.person"
}