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n. - A person you come to know by frequent written correspondence.

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Usage examples (8)
  • While he was there, Jim went up to Liverpool and met Joan, his pen-friend.
  • Until now we'd given our longstanding pen-friend no cause whatever to credit anyone in the Signals directorate with the competence to set a trap for him.
  • As the author explains in her introduction, the story began life as a series of letters and scenes that she wrote as a teenager in collaboration with a pen-friend she...
  • Clearwire is looking for a pen-friend in Global Mobile, one of six WiMAX licensees in Taiwan, according to local reports.
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