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pen pal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pen pal, pen-friendnoun

    a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence

Wiktionary

  1. pen palnoun

    A person with whom one communicates using letters, usually over a long distance.

Wikipedia

  1. Pen pal

    Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. Pen pals are usually strangers whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on their exchange of letters. Occasionally, pen pals may already have a relationship that is not regularly conducted in person.

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  1. Pen pal

    Pen pals are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pen pal in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pen pal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pen pal in a Sentence

  1. Shelly Davis:

    I just wanted him to get a letter, maybe have a pen pal, now he can't even do that because I don't have time to help him write letters and stuff.

  2. Joy Krause:

    Other people are just very lonely, some women like to have a long distance pen pal relationship. There are many, many reasons.


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