{
  "id": "monday.temporal",
  "term": "monday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "monday",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the first day of the week following the previous day in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "week.temporal",
      "first.order",
      "previous.temporal",
      "follows.sequential",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the day is ordered in time by following the prior day and marking the start of a repeating weekly cycle",
    "novel_properties": [
      "initial weekly position",
      "temporal succession",
      "cyclical ordering"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "On Monday, 3 July 2023, the Tokyo Stock Exchange resumed trading after the weekend closure.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Perseverance executed a pre-planned software update on Monday, 12 February 2024, following its Sunday sleep cycle.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The weekly bulletin from the UK Met Office is issued every Monday at 06:00 UTC, forecasting weather for the coming week.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "monday",
    "mondays"
  ],
  "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": "added missing foundational concepts 'follows.sequential' and 'time.dimension' to align with definition's implicit temporal succession; revised definition for factual accuracy and tighter alignment wit"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-monday.temporal"
}