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correspondent

adj
/ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/UK/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/US/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dənt/

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.

  1. derived from correspondēns

Definitions

  1. Corresponding

    Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.

    • Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
    • […]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.

  2. Conforming

    Conforming; obedient.

    • ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

  3. Something which corresponds with something else

    Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.

    • Both kála and kalánka have widespread correspondents in the western Mediterranean Romance languages.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.

    2. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a…

      A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

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Derived

correspondential, correspondently, correspondentship, discorrespondent, foreign correspondent, lobby correspondent, news correspondent, noncorrespondent, tapespondent, uncorrespondent, war correspondent

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for correspondent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA