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pensnoun1pl. of pen a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodyearned six years in a federal pen bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, cans, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, hocks, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, jails, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pokeys(slang), prisons, quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades, tolbooths(Scottish) bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides pensnoun2pl. of penan enclosure with an open framework for keeping animalsa goat pen cages, coops, corrals, hutches, pounds kennels, runskraals, stockadescotes, dovecotes(also dovecots), henhousesfolds, sheepfoldspigpensaquariums(or aquaria), terraria(or terrariums)live-boxesfences pensnoun3pl. of pena person who creates a written workAlexander Hamilton is reckoned to be the pseudonymous pen behind two thirds of the Federalist Papers authors, litterateurs(or littérateurs), penmen, scribes, scriveners, writers auteurs, belletrists(also belle-lettrists), stylists, wordsmithscoauthors(or co-authors), coscenarists(or co-scenarists), cowriters(or co-writers)ghostwriters, hacks, hatchet men, scribblers, wordmongersbiographers, hagiographersautobiographers, memoirists, memorialistsfabulists, fictioneers, fictionists, novelists, romancers, storytellersessayists, pamphleteers, satiristsdramatists, playwrights, scenarists, screenwriters, scriptwritersprosaists, prosateurs, prosersbards, poets, rhymers, versifiersbloggers, columnists, journalists, newspapermen, paragraphers, reporters, sportswriters men of letters, women of letters nonauthors pensverb1present tense third-person singular of pento close or shut in by or as if by barriersremember to pen up the dogs when visitors come over boxes (in), cages, closets, coops (up), corrals, encages, encases, encloses(also incloses), envelops, fences (in), hedges, hems (in), houses, immures, includes, mews (up), walls (in) bounds, circumscribes, confines, contains, limits, restrictsencircles, encompasses, enfolds, enframes, enlaces, frames, rings, surroundsarmors, cocoons, encapsulates, encapsules, encysts, ensheathes, enspheres, enwombs pensverb2present tense third-person singular of pento 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 authors, scratches (out), scribbles, writes casts, composes, crafts, drafts, draws up, formulates, frames, preparesrecasts, redrafts, revises, rewritesletters, prints, types, typewritesrecords, takes down, transcribesautographs, pencils (in), registers, signscouches, expresses, phrases, puts, words |