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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-initial-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="initial" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation>ɪˈnɪʃəl</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-initial-a-01015570-s" synset="oewn-01015570-s" dc:identifier="initial%5:00:00:first:00"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-initial-n">
      <Lemma writtenForm="initial" partOfSpeech="n">
        <Pronunciation>ɪˈnɪʃəl</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Sense id="oewn-initial-n-06844047-n" synset="oewn-06844047-n" dc:identifier="initial%1:10:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-initial-v-00999352-v"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-initial-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="initial" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>ɪˈnɪʃəl</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="initialled"/>
      <Form writtenForm="initialling"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-initial-v-00999352-v" synset="oewn-00999352-v" dc:identifier="initial%2:32:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-initial-n-06844047-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="by_means_of" target="oewn-initial-n-06844047-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="undergoer" target="oewn-initial-n-06844047-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-00999352-v" ili="i26569" partOfSpeech="v" members="oewn-initial-v" lexfile="verb.communication">
      <Definition language="en">mark with one&apos;s initials</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="entails" target="oewn-00808164-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-00890750-v"/>
    </Synset>
    <Synset id="oewn-01015570-s" ili="i5538" partOfSpeech="s" members="oewn-initial-a" lexfile="adj.all">
      <Definition language="en">occurring at the beginning</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-01014459-a"/>
      <Example language="en">took the initial step toward reconciliation</Example>
    </Synset>
    <Synset id="oewn-06844047-n" ili="i72385" partOfSpeech="n" members="oewn-initial-n" lexfile="noun.communication">
      <Definition language="en">the first letter of a word (especially a person&apos;s name)</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-06841868-n"/>
      <Example language="en">he refused to put the initials FRS after his name</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>