{
  "id": "letter.written",
  "term": "letter",
  "sense": "written",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of paper that has text on it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "paper.material",
      "text.written",
      "piece.portion"
    ],
    "interaction": "paper holds text together to form a written communication",
    "novel_properties": [
      "physical carrier of written message",
      "bounded textual artifact",
      "structured surface with informational marks"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, survives as a parchment document with handwritten Latin text.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie's 1898 letter to the French Academy of Sciences described the discovery of polonium.",
      "domain": "science"
    },
    {
      "text": "A printed letter from Nelson Mandela, dated February 1985, was smuggled out of Pollsmoor Prison.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "letter",
    "lettered",
    "lettering",
    "letters"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'piece.portion' to account for the 'piece' in the definition; the components now fully support the stated definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-letter.written"
}