Synonyms of pens

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noun (1)

plural of pen

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

earned six years in a federal pen

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• prisons
• penitentiaries
• coops
• coolers
• brigs
• cages
• jugs
• hocks
• stockades
• cans
• lockups
• tanks
• big houses
• pokeys
• clinks
• bastilles
• guardrooms
• joints
• bridewells
• stirs
• nicks
• quods
• tolbooths
• cells
• jailhouses
• slammers
• dungeons
• hoosegows
• slams
• holds
• holes
• bull pens
• calabooses
• wards
• hulks
• concentration camps
• guardhouses
• labor camps
• keeps
• prison camps
• work camps
• glasshouses
• blocks
• gulags
• reformatories
• training schools
• reform schools
• stalags
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides

pens

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noun (2)

plural of pen

as in cages

an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals

a goat pen

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cages
• coops
• corrals
• pounds
• kennels
• hutches
• runs
• aquariums
• fences
• kraals
• folds
• stockades
• cotes
• aquaria
• dovecotes
• terrariums
• pigpens
• dovecots
• henhouses
• sheepfolds
• terraria
• live-boxes

pens

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noun (3)

plural of pen

as in writers

a person who creates a written work

Alexander Hamilton is reckoned to be the pseudonymous pen behind two thirds of the Federalist Papers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writers
• authors
• novelists
• men of letters
• women of letters
• poets
• storytellers
• littérateurs
• penmen
• litterateurs
• biographers
• scriveners
• scribes
• wordsmiths
• scribblers
• bloggers
• screenwriters
• columnists
• reporters
• stylists
• ghostwriters
• coauthors
• cowriters
• belletrists
• playwrights
• co-authors
• journalists
• essayists
• co-writers
• hacks
• memoirists
• wordmongers
• fictionists
• dramatists
• fictioneers
• autobiographers
• pamphleteers
• memorialists
• co-scenarists
• scriptwriters
• belle-lettrists
• hagiographers
• hatchet men
• auteurs
• bards
• fabulists
• rhymers
• versifiers
• newspapermen
• satirists
• scenarists
• sportswriters
• prosaists
• prosers
• romancers
• paragraphers
• prosateurs
• coscenarists

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthors

pens

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of pen

as in houses

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

remember to pen up the dogs when visitors come over

Synonyms & Similar Words

• houses
• cages
• confines
• includes
• encloses
• incloses
• closets
• surrounds
• boxes (in)
• hedges
• corrals
• encases
• walls (in)
• fences (in)
• envelops
• hems (in)
• encages
• coops (up)
• mews (up)
• bounds
• contains
• rings
• immures
• limits
• restricts
• encompasses
• circumscribes
• frames
• encircles
• enframes
• enfolds
• encysts
• ensheathes
• encapsules
• armors
• encapsulates
• cocoons
• enlaces
• enspheres
• enwombs

pens

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of pen

as in writes

to compose and set down on paper the words of

though relatively unknown at the time of his death, the composer had penned some of the most memorable show tunes of his era

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writes
• authors
• scribbles
• composes
• crafts
• records
• letters
• prints
• types
• scratches (out)
• drafts
• words
• signs
• rewrites
• pencils (in)
• formulates
• transcribes
• recasts
• casts
• draws up
• prepares
• frames
• phrases
• typewrites
• redrafts
• revises
• autographs
• takes down
• registers
• couches
• puts
• expresses