{
  "id": "october.month",
  "term": "october",
  "sense": "month",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the month that follows the previous month and precedes the next month each year",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "month.temporal",
      "year.time",
      "follows.sequential",
      "next.temporal",
      "precedes.temporal",
      "previous.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the year repeats the months and puts this month after one month and before another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "position in annual cycle",
      "fixed predecessor and successor",
      "sequential temporal relation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded over 13 days beginning in October, altering Cold War geopolitics.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple launched the iPhone 5 in October 2012, selling over five million units in the first weekend.",
      "domain": "technology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Monarch butterflies depart southern Canada in October, beginning a 4,000-kilometer migration to central Mexico.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "november.date"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "october",
    "octobers"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts that the definition relies on: follows.sequential, next.temporal, precedes.temporal, and previous.temporal. Definition remains unchanged as it correctly describes t"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-october.month"
}