{
  "id": "member.social",
  "term": "member",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person that is a part of a group",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "groups.collection",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a person is included as a part of a group, the part relation links the person with the collection to produce a member",
    "novel_properties": [
      "social identity",
      "group affiliation",
      "collective belonging"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Rosa Parks attended meetings as a member of the Montgomery NAACP in 1955.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Node 3 of the International Space Station was integrated into the orbiting structure in 2007.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Taylor Swift performed as a member of the country music group Little Big Town in 2009.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "part.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporation.business"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "member",
    "members"
  ],
  "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-member.social"
}