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Synonyms for pen
pɛnpen

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pennoun

    a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

    Synonyms:
    penitentiary, playpen

  2. pennoun

    an enclosure for confining livestock

    Synonyms:
    penitentiary, playpen

  3. playpen, pennoun

    a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

    Synonyms:
    penitentiary, playpen

  4. penitentiary, pennoun

    a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

    Synonyms:
    penitentiary, playpen

  5. penverb

    female swan

    Synonyms:
    penitentiary, playpen

  6. write, compose, pen, inditeverb

    produce a literary work

    "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

    Synonyms:
    spell, draw up, compose, compile, save, indite, publish, frame, drop a line, write

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. penverb

    Synonyms:
    write, compose, indite

  2. penverb

    Synonyms:
    incage, coop, confine, enclose, impound, imprison, incarcerate, shut up, shut in, hem in, wall in, rail in

  3. pennoun

    Synonyms:
    enclosure, COOP, PENFOLD, pinfold, pound

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. pennoun

    Synonyms:
    coop, sty, cote, enclosure, hutch, paddock, pound, pinfold, corral, stockade

  2. penverb

    Synonyms:
    confine, coop, encage, corral

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pen":

    pencil, feather, plume, stylus, crayon, nep, aup, paddock, quill, ink

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How to use pen in a sentence?

  1. Barack Obama:

    I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office, now I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pen out.

  2. Michael Kamali:

    We have n’t had anyone come into our department who tried to do this with a ballpoint pen, and I hope we don’t, i don’t think the outcome would be too good.

  3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton:

    Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

  4. Gaston Bachelard:

    It is the pen which dreams.

  5. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

    The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.


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