HOW TO PRONOUNCE
correspondent
/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/
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What does correspondent mean?
adjective
- Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
- Conforming; obedient.
noun
- Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
More meanings (2)
noun
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/
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A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the “bloofer lady” is supremely funny.
“Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us.”
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I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
She addresses herself to an imaginary correspondent, to a woman supposed to be suffering from that agitation and impatience which she had experienced herself.
From another correspondent with whom Inez had lived in Alabama for a few weeks we had a marvelous tale which they heard from her.