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pennoun1 a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodyearned six years in a federal pen bastille, big house(slang), bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink(slang), cooler, coop, guardroom, hock, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, joint(slang), jug, lockup, nick(British slang), penitentiary, pokey(slang), prison, quod(British slang), slam, slammer, stir(slang), stockade, tolbooth(Scottish) bull pen, cage, cell, hole, tankblock, wardglasshouse(British), guardhouse, hulk(s)concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work campdungeon, keep, oubliettereformatory, reform school, training school outside pennoun2an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animalsa goat pen cage, coop, corral, hutch, pound kennel, runkraal, stockadecote, dovecote(also dovecot), henhousefold, sheepfoldpigpenaquarium, terrariumlive-boxfence pennoun3a person who creates a written workAlexander Hamilton is reckoned to be the pseudonymous pen behind two thirds of the Federalist Papers author, litterateur(or littérateur), penman, scribe, scrivener, writer auteur, belletrist(also belle-lettrist), stylist, wordsmithcoauthor, coscenarist, cowriterghostwriter, hack, hatchet man, scribbler, wordmongerbiographer, hagiographerautobiographer, memoirist, memorialistfabulist, fictioneer, fictionist, novelist, romancer, storytelleressayist, pamphleteer, satiristdramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriterprosaist, prosateur, proserbard, poet, rhymer, versifierblogger, columnist, journalist, newspaperman, paragrapher, reporter, sportswriter man of letters, woman of letters nonauthor penverb1to close or shut in by or as if by barriersremember to pen up the dogs when visitors come over box (in), cage, closet, coop (up), corral, encage, encase, enclose(also inclose), envelop, fence (in), hedge, hem (in), house, immure, include, mew (up), wall (in) bound, circumscribe, confine, contain, limit, restrictencircle, encompass, enfold, enframe, enlace, frame, ring, surroundarmor, cocoon, encapsulate, encapsule, encyst, ensheathe, ensphere, enwomb penverb2to compose and set down on paper the words ofthough relatively unknown at the time of his death, the composer had penned some of the most memorable show tunes of his era author, scratch (out), scribble, write cast, compose, craft, draft, draw up, formulate, frame, preparerecast, redraft, revise, rewriteletter, print, type, typewriterecord, take down, transcribeautograph, pencil (in), register, signcouch, express, phrase, put, word in the 13th century |