Pen

Noun

 * 1) An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
 * 2) A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
 * 3)  The bullpen.
 * 4) A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
 * 5)  The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
 * 6)  A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
 * 7) penalty
 * 8) A female swan.

Verb

 * 1)  To enclose in a pen.
 * 2)   To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Adjectives for Pen
educated; guided; gifted; severe; unbiased; inexhaustible; spiteful; brilliant; shy; inexpressive; horrible; abler; ill-natured; ready; fascinating; vile; enigmatic; substantial; facile; untrained; sprightly; blithesome; humorous; truant; burning; barbarous; dreadful; lucid; inadequate; young; passion-guided; trenchant.

Verbs for Pen
dip—; exercise—; grasp—; poise—; pour from—; probe—into; scrawl with—; whisk —across; wield—; —assails; —comes to life; —exposes; —falters; —libels; —sears; —unfolds ; —voices.

Adverbs for Pen
obscurely; trenchantly;  spitefully;  inexhaustibly; brilliantly; expressively; fascinatingly; enigmatically; facilely; passionately.

Thesaurus
cattle ranch, cell, chamber, check, chicken farm, chirographer, cincture, clerk, clink, cloister, close, close in, collective farm, compass, composition, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, constrain, contain, container, cooler, coop, coop in, coop up, copier, copy, copy out, copyist, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, cotton plantation, coup de plume, court, courtyard, creative writing, crib, croft, cryptography, curtilage, dairy farm, death cell, death house, death row, delimited field, demesne, demesne farm, detain, detention camp, draft, drama-writing, draw up, dry farm, dude ranch, edit, editorial-writing, encage, encircle, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enface, engross, engrossment, enshrine, essay-writing, expository writing, facility in writing, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, feature-writing, federal prison, fence, fence in, field, fold, forced-labor camp, fruit farm, fur farm, gaol, grain farm, grange, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, grassland, ground, guardhouse, hacienda, hedge, hedge in, hell, hem, hem in, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hoosegow, house in, house of correction, house of detention, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inditement, industrial school, inhibit, ink spiller, ink spilling, inkslinger, inkslinging, inscribe, inscription, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, journalism, keep, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, kibbutz, kolkhoz, labor camp, leaguer, letterer, lettering, libretto-writing, limbo, list, literary artistry, literary composition, literary power, literary production, literary talent, location, lockup, macrography, mains, make a recension, make out, manor farm, maximum-security prison, mew, mew up, micrography, minimum-security prison, novel-writing, orchard, oubliette, pale, paling, park, pasture, pen in, pen up, pen-and-ink, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, pencil, pencil driver, pencil driving, pencraft, penfold, penitentiary, penman, penner, pinfold, place of confinement, plantation, playwriting, pocket, pokey, poultry farm, pound, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, purgatory, push the pen, put in writing, quad, quadrangle, quarantine, rail in, ranch, rancheria, rancho, ready pen, recense, record, recording secretary, reform school, reformatory, restrain, restrict, revise, rewrite, rewriting, scribbler, scribe, scrive, scrivener, scrivenery, scrivening, scroll, seal up, secret writing, secretary, shackle, sheep farm, short-story writing, shrine, shut in, shut up, skill with words, spill ink, spoil paper, sponging house, square, stable, state prison, station, steading, stock farm, stockade, superscribe, surround, technical writing, the hole, theater, toft, tollbooth, trace, training school, transcribe, transcriber, truck farm, type, typewriting, typing, verse-writing, wall in, word-slinger, wrap, write, write down, write out, writer, writing, yard, yard up, POW camp, amanuensis, arable land, arena, artistry, authorcraft, authorship, automatic writing, barnyard, barton, bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, black hole, blockade, borstal, borstal institution, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, bridewell, brig, cacoethes scribendi, cage, calaboose, calligrapher, can,

Etymology 1
penne: from penn: (in compounds) from  from. Akin to pennian: (in compounds) (compare onpennian:),  pennen:,  pinn:. More at pin:.

Etymology 2
penne:, from penne:, from  penna:, from, from  (from which petition:). Proto-Indo-European base also root of, from which πτερόν: (whence pterodactyl:), Sanskrit patram:, Old Church Slavonic pero:, Old Norse fjöðr:, Old English feðer: (Modern English feather:); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.

See feather: and πέτομαι: for more.

Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.

Etymology 4
Shortned form of penalty

Derived terms

 * ball pen
 * ball-point pen
 * border pen
 * bull pen
 * cartridge pen
 * felt-tip pen


 * fountain pen
 * goose pen
 * lettering pen
 * pen cancellation
 * pen feather
 * pen-mate


 * penmanship
 * pen name
 * pen pal
 * pen-pusher
 * poison pen

Noun

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: karám
 * Italian: recinto, chiuso, ovile


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: тoр, трло
 * Norwegian: innhegning, kve
 * Portuguese: curral
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,

Verb

 * Finnish: karsinoida, sulkea selliin/karsinaan
 * German:
 * Greek: μαντρώνω


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: innhegne
 * Russian: ,

Noun

 * Afrikaans: pen
 * Arabic:, قلم حبر
 * Morocco:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ручка
 * Bengali: কলম, লিখনী
 * Bulgarian: писалка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , 圓珠筆, 圆珠笔
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: pero
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kynä, mustekynä
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კალამი
 * German:, , Federhalter, Füllhalter
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, पेन
 * Hungarian:, akol
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペン,


 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean: 펜
 * Kurdish:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: लेखणी
 * Meru:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, خودکار
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (rúčka),  (avtorúčka),  (peró)
 * Scottish Gaelic: peann
 * Sinhalese: පෑන
 * Slovak: pero
 * Slovene: pero
 * Spanish: (not a ballpoint pen),  (ballpoint pen only; colloquially shortened to ),
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: పెన్ను, కలము, కలం (pennu, kalamu, kalam)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ручка, перо
 * Urdu:, پین
 * Uyghur: قەلەم
 * Vietnamese: bút mực,, cây bút, cây viết chì, viết chì


 * Greek:


 * Korean: 오징어 뼈 (ojing-eo ppyeo)

Verb

 * Bengali: লেখা, লিখন
 * Dutch: opschrijven, schrijven, (colloquial: oppennen, neerpennen)
 * Finnish: kynäillä
 * French:
 * German: niederschreiben, verfassen
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: пишува
 * Norwegian: skrive, føre i pennen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,

Noun

 * Danish: hunsvane
 * Finnish: naarasjoutsen
 * French: cygne femelle
 * German: Schwanenweibchen, weiblicher Schwan, Schwänin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hunnsvane
 * Nynorsk: hunnsvane


 * Polish: łabędzica
 * Russian: лебёдка,
 * Serbian: labudica

Anagrams

 * nep, NEP
 * PNe

Noun

 * 1) pen
 * 2) quill
 * 3) pane, peen

Etymology
From late penni:, from  penna:.

Noun

 * 1) a pen writing utensil
 * 2) a pin

Derived terms

 * balpen, kroontjespen, vulpen
 * scharnierpen, aardingspen

Anagrams

 * nep

Pinyin syllable
pen



Verb

 * 1) to see

Synonyms

 * petun

Adjective
pen


 * 1) beautiful

Noun

 * 1) paint

Noun

 * 1) head