Pen-friend

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of penfriend. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence wordnet

Synonyms

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pen pal

Example

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"Maria didn't suspect that "Tom", her pen-friend, with whom she had been corresponding for months over the Internet and whom she secretly loved, without ever having met him, was actually a super-intelligent squirrel."

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