Correspondent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Correspondent is an adjective meaning Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
Meaning
Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
More Meanings
- (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
- Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
- Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
- A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
Example Sentences
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.
Both kála and kalánka have widespread correspondents in the western Mediterranean Romance languages.
[…]and he exhibited a picture of mental stupor and abstraction, dreadful for Oriana to contemplate! producing in her, as from magnetic attraction, correspondent emotions, which with the utmost difficulty she restrained.
Word Forms
- correspondents
Synonyms for correspondent
Depending on context, synonyms include equivalent, indistinguishable, tantamount, analogous, similar, newspaperman.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include similar, analogous, newspaperwoman, newswriter, newspaperman, pressman.
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