correspondent
English
Etymology
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒndənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɔɹɪˈspɑndənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)
- Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
- Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
- 1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:
- [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
- 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 170:
- […] 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.
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- (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- ARIEL Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.
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Translations
corresponding — see corresponding
conforming
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Noun
correspondent (plural correspondents)
- Someone who or something which corresponds.
- 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.
Hyponyms
- stringer
Derived terms
- correspondential
- correspondently
- correspondentship
- foreign correspondent
- news correspondent
- war correspondent
Translations
one who corresponds
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journalist
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See also
- corespondent
- Correspondent in Wikipedia
References
- correspondent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Dutch
Alternative forms
- korrespondent (before 1996)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔ.rɛs.pɔnˈdɛnt/, /ˌkɔ.rə.spɔnˈdɛnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: cor‧res‧pon‧dent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)
- A correspondent, in particular a reporter.
Related terms
- correspondentie
- corresponderen
Descendants
- → Indonesian: korèspondèn
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d/
Audio (CAN) (file)
Verb
correspondent
- third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of correspondre
Latin
Verb
correspondent
- third-person plural present active indicative of correspondeō
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)
- (Jersey) correspondent