pen
About 12.11 uses per million words.
Meaning
- symbol Former ISO 639-3 language code for Penesak.
- noun An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
- noun A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- noun The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
- verb To enclose in a pen.
- noun A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
He took notes with a pen.
- noun A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
- noun Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
Similar words
playpen penitentiary compose indite write paddock corral basin sty bullpen
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Word family
PEN penned penning pens
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