Usually means: Instrument for writing or drawing.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word pen:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PEN, pen, pen-, the pen: Merriam-Webster
  3. PEN, Pen, pen, pen, pen, pen, the pen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pen, pen, pen, pen, pen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pen, pen, pen-, the pen: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pen: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pen, Pen, pen: Wordnik
  8. pen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pen, pen: Wiktionary
  10. pen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pen, pen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pen, p.e.n, pen, pen-: Dictionary.com
  14. pen-, pen (1), pen (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PEN (disambiguation), PEN, Pen (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Pen (disambiguation), Pen (enclosure), Pen, The Pen (Seinfeld), The Pen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pen: Rhymezone
  20. pen, pen (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PEN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pen: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Pen, pen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. pen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. pen-, pen-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  5. Pen: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. PEN: bizterms.net
  4. PEN: Investopedia
  5. Pen (enclosure), pen: Legal dictionary
  6. PEN: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen: Netlingo
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Pen (enclosure), pen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pen (enclosure), pen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PEN: Acronym Finder
  3. PEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. pen: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pen: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Pen(a), Pen(b): Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen, pen, pen, Pen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. the pen: Urban Dictionary
  4. Pen: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
noun:  (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
noun:  (baseball) The bullpen.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
noun:  A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
noun:  (figurative) A writer, or their style.
noun:  (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
noun:  A light pen.
noun:  (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
noun:  (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
noun:  (poetic) A wing.
noun:  A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
verb:  (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
noun:  A female swan.
noun:  (soccer, slang) Penalty.
noun:  (computing, informal) Penetration.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
noun:  The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”). [An electronic cigarette, especially when used to deliver a dose of a drug other than nicotine.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
noun:  (speed skating) Abbreviation of penalty. (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate) [A legal sentence.]

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