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What does pen mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pen? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
  2. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
  3. (baseball) The bullpen.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
Noun
  1. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
  2. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
  3. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
  4. A light pen.
  5. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
  6. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
  7. (poetic) A wing.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Noun
  1. A female swan.
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