{
  "id": "welcome.greeting",
  "term": "welcome",
  "sense": "greeting",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "welcome",
  "domain": "greeting",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to receive someone entering a place and act politely toward them",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "enter.spatial",
      "polite.social",
      "receive.communication",
      "act.deed",
      "someone.person",
      "space.extent",
      "toward.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "When someone enters a space, the act of receiving them and directing polite behavior toward them produces a welcome.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "acknowledged arrival",
      "social inclusion",
      "directed hospitality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The staff at Tokyo Station bow as passengers enter the platform, maintaining order and respect during rush hour.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A Linux login prompt displays 'Welcome' after a user connects via SSH to the server at 192.168.1.10.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "At the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, volunteers greeted athletes from 204 nations as they entered the stadium.",
      "domain": "events"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "polite.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "enter.spatial",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "welcome",
    "welcomed",
    "welcomes",
    "welcoming"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 updated to accurately reflect the necessary components and avoid omission of constitutive concepts."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-welcome.greeting"
}