{
  "id": "washington.city",
  "term": "washington",
  "sense": "city",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "washington",
  "domain": "default",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "city that is the center of the national government",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "city.place",
      "government.administrative",
      "center.location",
      "nation.political"
    ],
    "interaction": "the place serves as the central administrative hub for the nation's government",
    "novel_properties": [
      "national governance hub",
      "centralized administrative function",
      "political centrality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Protesters march toward the Capitol during the January 6, 2021, rally in Washington, D.C.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Pentagon sends deployment orders signed by the Secretary of Defense from Washington, D.C.",
      "domain": "government"
    },
    {
      "text": "Air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C. manage arrivals at Ronald Reagan National Airport during a snowstorm.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "washington"
  ],
  "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": "corrected definition to accurately reflect that the city is the center of the national government, not just 'america.nation government'; added missing constitutive concepts: center.location and nation"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-washington.city"
}