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correspondent

[ kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor- ]

noun

  1. a person who communicates by letters.
  2. a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.
  3. a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.
  4. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.
  5. a thing that corresponds to something else.


adjective

  1. consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding. correspond.

correspondent

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt /

noun

  1. a person who communicates by letter or by letters
  2. a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country
  3. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad
  4. something that corresponds to another


adjective

  1. similar or analogous

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Other Words From

  • corre·spondent·ly adverb
  • noncor·res·pondent adjective noun
  • precor·re·spondent adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of correspondent1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin corrēspondent- (stem of corrēspondēns ), present participle of corrēspondēre to correspond; -ent

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Example Sentences

The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

That good fortune meant CNN had the only TV correspondent on the scene.

There she met Janet Flanner, who would become a famed New Yorker correspondent “Genet”—for three decades.

Booker plans to spend his Thanksgiving dinner with CBS correspondent Gayle King and their families.

Every artist-correspondent and writer-correspondent who could possibly get permission to be there, was there.

He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.

Such is the opinion of this Correspondent to the Times, and it is doubtless the opinion of a fair and just majority.

Your correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.

The success of his imitation of Coleridge's style is proved by the indignation of your correspondent.

We accept with thanks the polite offer made by our Correspondent in his postscript.

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