OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1356

penny

/ˈpɛni/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
penique
In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him…
We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies,…
penique
In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
📚 noun • entry_id 2030

pen

/pɛn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chivitil (disused) • corral
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 2031

pen

/pɛn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
boli • bolígrafo • esfero • lapicera • lapicero • lapiz de pasta • pluma
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
He took notes with a pen.
Please use a pen, not a pencil, when filling out this form. Use black or blue ink only.
cálamo • pluma
A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
those learned pens
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 2033

pen

/pɛn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cigne • cisne
A female swan.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2032

pen

/pɛn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escribir
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the year…
Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork…
Phrases
No hay frases