Dictionary Entry
pen
pen is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, noun & verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A feather. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A feather.
- 2noun
A wing.
- 3noun
An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
- 4noun
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
- 5noun
The internal shell of a squid.
- 6noun
A female swan.
- 7transitive verb
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
- 8noun & verb
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
- 9noun
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
- 10noun
female swan
- 11noun
a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- 12noun
an enclosure for confining livestock
- 13noun
a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
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- 14noun
a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
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- 15verb
produce a literary work
"She composed a poem"
"He wrote four novels"
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