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Word entry · 6 letters

penman

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"Skilled writer"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aemnnpStarts with PEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2E3N4M5A6N

Definitions

  1. informal terms for male journalists

Word origin

From pen + -man.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he holy Pen-men of the Nevv Teſtament ſeem to have borrovv'd and apply'd it [the word mystery] to ſome of the Great and Arduous Truths of Chriſtianity, ſuch as human Reaſon cannot give a clear and explicit Account of.
  • Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it. I’ll read any day as long as you like, but that writing, I could never manage.
  • But there had been total silence. The Captain evidently was not a great penman, and Rosamond reflected that the sisters might have been abroad.

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