pen-friend

Questions about pen-friend

What is another word for pen-friend?

It depends which pen-friend you mean. In the sense “a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence”, the synonyms are pen pal. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pen-friend?

WordNet records no antonym for pen-friend. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pen-friend come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pen-friend

• Full entry for pen-friendAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pen-friendWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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