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correspondent

/ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/

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What does correspondent mean?

adjective

  1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
  2. Conforming; obedient.

noun

  1. Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
  2. 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.
Bram StokerDraculaProject Gutenberg ebook #345
“Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us.”
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141
More book examples (3)
I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
She addresses herself to an imaginary correspondent, to a woman supposed to be suffering from that agitation and impatience which she had experienced herself.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
From another correspondent with whom Inez had lived in Alabama for a few weeks we had a marvelous tale which they heard from her.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449