Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female

chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adu ...

, other gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a

woman A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

. Hen or Hens may also refer to:

Places

Norway

Hen, Buskerud Hen is a small village in the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and ...

, a village in Ringerike municipality * Hen, Møre og Romsdal, a former municipality now in Rauma municipality ** Hen Church

United Kingdom

Hazel Brook The Hazel Brook, also known as the Hen, is a tributary of the River Trym in Bristol, England. It rises at Cribbs Causeway in South Gloucestershire. From there, its course takes it south, passing the western end of Filton Aerodrome on its left ...

or Hen, a stream in Bristol, England *

Hen Cliff Hen Cliff is part of the Jurassic Coast near Kimmeridge in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. The cliff runs from the eastern end of Kimmeridge Bay (below the folly called Clavell Tower) east to an area called Cuddle. The cliffs consist (as ...

, on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England *HEN, station code for

Hendon railway station Hendon railway station is on the Midland Main Line in England, in West Hendon in the London Borough of Barnet, north London. It is down the line from and is situated between to the south and to the north. Its three-letter station code is ...

, England

Worldwide

* Hen Island (disambiguation) *

Hen and Chicken Islands The Hen and Chicken Islands (usually known collectively as the ''Hen and Chickens'') lie to the east of the North Auckland Peninsula off the coast of northern New Zealand. They lie east of Bream Head and south-east of Whangarei with a tota ...

, New Zealand *

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HEN)

People

Hen (name) Henry is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name Hen or Hens include: Surnames: *Coel Hen, Semi-legendary king of Sub-Roman Britain *Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen (''fl.'' c. 1440-1480), Welsh poet * Jorge Peña Hen (1928-1973 ...

, a given name and surname *

Hen (pronoun) () is a gender-neutral personal pronoun in Swedish intended as an alternative to the gender-specific ("she") and ("he"). It can be used when the gender of a person is not known or when it is not desirable to specify them as either a "she" or " ...

, a Swedish gender-neutral pronoun * Hen., an abbreviation of the given name

Henry Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...

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