# correspondence

Pronunciation: US say "kawr-i-SPAHN-duhns" /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/; say "kor-i-SPON-duhns" UK /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/, AUS /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dəns/

## Noun

1. Letters, emails, and other forms of written communication sent and received between people.
   - Simple: Letters, emails, and other written messages that people send to each other.
   - _The historian sorted through decades of correspondence between the two statesmen._
   - _Company policy requires that all business correspondence be archived for seven years._
2. An ongoing exchange of letters between people, carried on as a friendly or courteous communication.
   - Simple: The act of writing letters back and forth with someone as a friendly exchange.
   - _Their correspondence grew warmer as the months passed._
   - _He maintained a lively correspondence with several scientists across Europe._
3. Agreement or similarity between different things, people, and the like, in the way they match or fit together.
   - Simple: The way different things or people are alike or match each other.
   - _Critics pointed out the striking correspondence between the novel's plot and the author's own childhood._
   - _The two languages show regular correspondences in their grammar and vocabulary._
4. A relation that links the members of one set with the members of another set.
   - Simple: A link that pairs the members of one group with members of another.
   - _The proof establishes a one-to-one correspondence between the two sets._
   - _Each correspondence in the diagram maps an input to exactly one output._
5. News reports and stories sent to a newspaper by a writer reporting from another place.
   - Simple: News reports sent in by a writer reporting from a particular place.
   - _His wartime correspondence earned him a reputation as a fearless reporter._
   - _The magazine ran her correspondence from the capital throughout the election._

## Noun

6. Friendly social dealings and conversation between people who are on good terms with one another. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Friendly conversation and dealings between people who get along well.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

## Origin

It comes from Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia; by surface analysis, it is correspond plus the suffix -ence.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/correspondence (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).