pen pal
a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely: My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.
Origin of pen pal
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How to use pen pal in a sentence
When I was 10, I had a pen pal, a girl whose parents were friends with my parents.
But Lovell says inmates who are involved in pen-pal relationships tend to do better in prison.
Inside the death-row pen-pal business—and how felons bid for friends.
Your pen pal correspondent in Russia, at least the second one, was Nina Atarina?
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British Dictionary definitions for pen pal
a person with whom one regularly exchanges letters, often a person in another country whom one has not met: Also called: pen friend
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