Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a

lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...

. It is also a slang term for a woman. Hen or Hens may also refer to:

Places

Norway

* Hen, Buskerud, a village in Ringerike municipality *

Hen, Møre og Romsdal Hen is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1902 until its dissolution in 1964. Hen encompassed the valleys extending to the south and east of the Isfjorden in the northeastern part of the pres ...

, a former municipality now in Rauma municipality ** Hen Church

United Kingdom

* Hazel Brook or Hen, a stream in Bristol, England * Hen Cliff, on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England *HEN, station code for Hendon railway station, England

Worldwide

Hen Island (disambiguation) Hen Island may refer to: * Hen Island (Connecticut) * Hen Island (Maryland) * Hen Island (Ontario) * Hen Island (Tasmania) * Hen Island, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland * Hen Island, Taranga Island, one of the Hen and ...

* Hen and Chicken Islands, New Zealand * Henan, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HEN)

People

* Hen (name), a given name and surname * Hen (pronoun), a Swedish gender-neutral pronoun * Hen., an abbreviation of the given name Henry

Other

Symphony No. 83 (Haydn) Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hoboken I/83, is the second of the six Paris Symphonies (numbers 82–87) written by Joseph Haydn in 1785. It was published by Artaria in Vienna in December 1787. It is popularly known as The Hen (french: La poule). Ni ...