pen
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- pronunciation:
- pen
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a long, thin tool used for writing or drawing in ink.
I prefer pens with blue ink.
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The English word
pen comes from
penna, the Latin word for "feather." Writing was done with a feather pen for over a thousand years. The "penknife" is so called because it was used to sharpen the point of a feather pen.