correspondence

correspondence

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for correspondence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Etymology

From correspond +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns, IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒndəns/

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Noun

correspondence (countable and uncountable, plural correspondences)

1. Mutual communication or discourse:
   1. (uncountable, obsolete) Friendly discussion.
   2. (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
   3. (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories.
   4. (countable or uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
2. Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
   1. (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
   2. (set theory, countable) A relation.
   3. (theology, Swedenborgianism) A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

Derived terms

• correspondence course
• correspondence principle
• Curry-Howard correspondence
• lexical correspondence
• Robinson-Schensted correspondence

 

Translations

friendly discussion

Russian: бесе́да (ru) f (beséda) Tagalog: filipino, pakikipagtalastasan

reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters

Arabic: مُرَاسَلَة‎ f (murāsala) Belarusian: перапíска f (pjerapíska), карэспандэ́нцыя f (karespandéncyja) Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija), пре́писка (bg) f (prépiska) Catalan: correspondència f Chinese: Mandarin: 通信 (zh) (tōngxìn), 通訊／通讯 (zh) (tōngxùn) Danish: brevveksling c, korrespondance c Dutch: briefwisseling (nl) f, correspondentie (nl) f Esperanto: korespondaĵo Finnish: kirjeenvaihto (by letters) French: correspondance (fr) f German: Briefwechsel (de) m, Korrespondenz (de) f Italian: corrispondenza (it), carteggio (it) m Japanese: 文通 (ぶんつう, buntsū), 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin) Korean: 통신 (ko) (tongsin), 문통 (muntong) Macedonian: преписка f (prepiska) Norwegian: Bokmål: brevveksling m or f Plautdietsch: Breefwakjsel m Polish: korespondencja (pl) f Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f Russian: перепи́ска (ru) f (perepíska), корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija) Spanish: correspondencia (es) f, carteo (es) m Swedish: brevväxling (sv) c, korrespondens (sv) c Turkish: yazışma (tr), haberleşme (tr) Ukrainian: листува́ння n (lystuvánnja), кореспонде́нція (uk) f (korespondéncija) Welsh: gohebiaeth f

agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome

Belarusian: адпаве́днасць f (adpavjédnascʹ) Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (bg) n (sǎotvétstvie), съотноше́ние (bg) n (sǎotnošénie) Chinese: Mandarin: 對應／对应 (zh) (duìyìng) Finnish: vastaavuus (fi) French: correspondance (fr) f Georgian: შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba) German: Korrespondenz (de) f Japanese: 対応 (ja) (たいおう, taiō) Korean: 대응 (ko) (daeeung) Polish: odpowiedniość (pl) f, zgodność (pl) f Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije), соотноше́ние (ru) n (sootnošénije) Ukrainian: відпові́дність f (vidpovídnistʹ) Welsh: cyfatebiaeth (cy) f

newspaper or news stories generally

Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija) Chinese: Mandarin: 通訊／通讯 (zh) (tōngxùn) Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl French: chronique (fr) f, correspondance (fr) f German: Korrespondenz (de) f Greek: ανταπόκριση (el) f (antapókrisi) Italian: corrispondenza (it) Japanese: 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin) Polish: korespondencja (pl) f Portuguese: notícias (pt) f pl Russian: корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija) Spanish: noticias (es) f pl Turkish: haber (tr)

postal or other written communications

Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija) Chinese: Mandarin: 書簡／书简 (zh) (shūjiǎn), 函件 (zh) (hánjiàn) Dutch: correspondentie (nl) f French: correspondance (fr) f German: Korrespondenz (de) f Greek: αλληλογραφία (el) f (allilografía) Hebrew: התכתבות‎ f Japanese: 書簡 (ja) (しょかん, shokan) Kulere: huhu Norman: correspondance f Norwegian: Bokmål: korrespondanse m Nynorsk: korrespondanse m Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f Russian: корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija), перепи́ска (ru) f (perepíska) (exchange) Spanish: correspondencia (es) f Tagalog: palihaman Turkish: mektuplaşma (tr)

set theory

Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (bg) n (sǎotvétstvie) Chinese: Mandarin: 对应关系 Norwegian: Bokmål: korrespondanse m Nynorsk: korrespondanse m Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije), соотноше́ние (ru) n (sootnošénije)

See also

• correspondent