pen
♦ pen /p'en/ (pens penning penned)
1 [N-COUNT]
A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink.
ballpoint pen: see ballpoint
felt-tip pen: see felt-tip
see also fountain pen
2 [VERB] V n to n, also V n n
If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it. (FORMAL)
She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
3 [N-COUNT]
A pen is also a small area with a fence round it in which farm animals are kept for a short time.
...a holding pen for sheep...
see also playpen
= enclosure
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed up
If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.foun|tain pen (fountain pens)
[N-COUNT]
A fountain pen is a pen which uses ink that you have drawn up inside it from a bottle.pen and ink
[ADJ] usu ADJ n
A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.pen name (pen names)
also pen-name
[N-COUNT]
A writer's pen name is the name that he or she uses on books and articles instead of his or her real name.
...Baroness Blixen, also known by her pen-name Isak Dinesen.
= pseudonympen pal (pen pals)
also pen-pal
[N-COUNT]
A pen pal is someone you write friendly letters to and receive letters from, although the two of you may never have met.
= pen-friend
1 [N-COUNT]
A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink.
ballpoint pen: see ballpoint
felt-tip pen: see felt-tip
see also fountain pen
2 [VERB] V n to n, also V n n
If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it. (FORMAL)
She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
3 [N-COUNT]
A pen is also a small area with a fence round it in which farm animals are kept for a short time.
...a holding pen for sheep...
see also playpen
= enclosure
4 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed up
If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area.
...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night...
I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.foun|tain pen (fountain pens)
[N-COUNT]
A fountain pen is a pen which uses ink that you have drawn up inside it from a bottle.pen and ink
[ADJ] usu ADJ n
A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.pen name (pen names)
also pen-name
[N-COUNT]
A writer's pen name is the name that he or she uses on books and articles instead of his or her real name.
...Baroness Blixen, also known by her pen-name Isak Dinesen.
= pseudonympen pal (pen pals)
also pen-pal
[N-COUNT]
A pen pal is someone you write friendly letters to and receive letters from, although the two of you may never have met.
= pen-friend