hen /hen/ noun [C]
F0 an adult female chicken, often kept for its eggs
F0 the female of any bird
F0 SCOTTISH ENGLISH INFORMAL used as a way of talking to a woman or girl, especially someone that you like:
» "Are you not feeling too good, hen?"Thesaurus+: ↑Friendly and unfriendly terms of address- ♯ Medical dressings, supports and devices
- ♯ Medical examination
- ♯ Medical places and organizations
- ♯ Medical studies and the people who study them
- ♯ Medical treatment
- ♯ Medicine
- ♯ Medicine in different forms
- ♯ Medicines and drugs
- ♯ Meditation, religious chanting and spiritual states
- ♯ Medium-sized
- ♯ Meeting people
- ♯ Memory and memories
- ♯ Men and women
- ♯ Mental and psychiatric disorders
- ♯ Merely and barely
- ♯ Mergers and takeovers
- ♯ Messengers and people who deliver things
- ♯ Metals and metalworking
- ♯ Middle Ages (medieval Period) 501-1500
- ♯ Military (the armed forces)
- ♯ Military training and ceremonies
- ♯ Mind and personality
- ♯ Mineralogy
- ♯ Mining and quarrying
- ♯ Miscellaneous animal body parts