{
  "id": "party.social",
  "term": "party",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of people who interact in a setting with music",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "setting.contextual",
      "music.auditory",
      "groups.collection",
      "interacting.social",
      "interaction.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "people come and interact in the setting while music plays",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared social experience",
      "rhythmic collective behavior",
      "emergent group mood"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Woodstock 1969 gathered 400,000 people in New York with performances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who.",
      "domain": "event"
    },
    {
      "text": "The weekly dance party at Berlin’s Berghain nightclub features electronic music in a former power plant.",
      "domain": "everyday"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tupperware launched home sales parties in the 1950s, combining socializing and commerce across U.S. suburbs.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "groups.collection",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a party is a kind of group"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "agreement.social",
    "holiday.leisure"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "parties",
    "party"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was factually incomplete—it leaned on unlisted concepts like group formation and interaction. Added the missing constitutive components to align the record with the actual conceptual depend"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-party.social"
}