correspondence
communication by exchange of letters.
a letter or letters that pass between correspondents: It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.
Also correspondency. an instance of corresponding.
similarity or analogy.
agreement; conformity.
news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
Mathematics. function (def. 4a).
Origin of correspondence
1Other words for correspondence
Other words from correspondence
- non·cor·res·pond·ence, noun
- pre·cor·re·spond·ence, noun
Words Nearby correspondence
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How to use correspondence in a sentence
His correspondence, much of which survives, is that of an incisive and articulate observer.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile Google can argue that actual employees do not read your correspondence (their robots do), Facebook can make no such claim.
How Four Upstarts Built and Crashed the Anti-Facebook | Jake Whitney | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDescribing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.
The correspondence between the two became, in effect, an alliance by stealth, waiting for events to make it safely transparent.
Blood and War: The Hard Truth About ‘Boots on the Ground’ | Clive Irving | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen their correspondence was finally disclosed, it needed careful parsing.
Blood and War: The Hard Truth About ‘Boots on the Ground’ | Clive Irving | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Two days later he walked into the office of the printing firm with which he had been in correspondence.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxShe made an end of her correspondence, and sat down to a delicious little supper alone; as she best liked to enjoy these treats.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodThe correspondence of the Library has quite materially increased in volume.
Report of the Chief Librarian for the Year 1924-25 | General Assembly Library (New Zealand)He believed in the value of viva voce discussion, and discouraged all unnecessary inter-departmental correspondence.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlowcorrespondence formed but a small part in his method of dealing with departments.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for correspondence
/ (ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns) /
the act or condition of agreeing or corresponding
similarity or analogy
agreement or conformity
communication by the exchange of letters
the letters so exchanged
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