PEN meaning: Instrument for writing or drawing

We found 65 dictionaries that define the word pen:

General (35 matching dictionaries)

PEN, pen, pen-, the pen: Merriam-Webster.com
PEN, Pen, pen, pen, pen, pen, the pen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Pen, pen, pen, pen, pen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Pen, pen, pen-, the pen: Collins English Dictionary
pen: Vocabulary.com
Pen, Pen, pen: Wordnik
pen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Pen, pen: Wiktionary
pen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pen, pen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pen: Infoplease Dictionary
Pen, p.e.n, pen, pen-: Dictionary.com
pen-, pen (1), pen (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
pen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
PEN (disambiguation), PEN, Pen (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Pen (disambiguation), Pen (enclosure), Pen, The Pen (Seinfeld), The Pen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Pen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
pen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pen: Rhymezone
pen, pen (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PEN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
pen: Free Dictionary
pen: Mnemonic Dictionary
Pen, pen: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
Pen, pen: Dictionary/thesaurus
pen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
pen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)

pen: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
pen-, pen-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
Pen: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
PEN: bizterms.net
PEN: Investopedia
Pen (enclosure), pen: Legal dictionary
PEN: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

pen: Netlingo
BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
Pen (enclosure), pen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Pen (enclosure), pen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
PEN: Acronym Finder
PEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
pen: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Pen: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Bird On! (No longer online)
Pen(a), Pen(b): Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

pen, pen, pen, Pen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
the pen: Urban Dictionary
Pen: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

PEN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
▸ noun:  (slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
▸ noun:  (baseball) The bullpen.
▸ verb:  (transitive) 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.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A writer, or their style.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
▸ noun:  A light pen.
▸ noun:  (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
▸ noun:  (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
▸ noun:  (poetic) A wing.
▸ noun:  A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
▸ verb:  (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
▸ noun:  A female swan.
▸ noun:  (soccer, slang) Penalty.
▸ noun:  (computing, informal) Penetration.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Penelope
▸ noun:  The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
▸ noun:  Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”). [An electronic cigarette, especially when used to deliver a dose of a drug other than nicotine.]
▸ noun:  (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
▸ noun:  (speed skating) Abbreviation of penalty. (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate) [A legal sentence.]

Similar:

playpen, penitentiary, compose, indite, write, pencil, ballpoint pen, quill, notepad, biro, more...

Opposite:

pencil, keyboard, voice, paintbrush, chalk

Types:

ballpoint, rollerball, felt tip, gel, fountain, marker, highlighter, colored pencil, more...

Phrases:

The Pen, a pen, pen in, pen name, fountain pen, more...

Adjectives:

ballpoint, own, light, same, red, black, point, reed, ready, tipped, hog

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