correspondent
Pluralcorrespondents
Pluralcorrespondents
- 1A reporter who files news stories to a newspaper, radio, or television outlet from a faraway or foreign location.
The network's Middle East correspondent broke the story hours before rival outlets.
As a foreign correspondent, she filed dispatches from three continents in a single year.
Similarreporter, journalist
- 2A person who keeps in touch with another individual or a publication through written letters or messages.
The magazine published a note from a longtime correspondent in rural Idaho.
She proved a diligent correspondent, answering each letter within days.
- 3A thing that matches or parallels another; its counterpart.
Every figure in the ancient ritual has a correspondent in the modern ceremony.
The translator hunted for the exact correspondent of the idiom in English.
Similarcounterpart, equivalent, parallel, analogue
- 4Matching or fittingly suited to something else; in keeping with it.
An increase in demand produced a correspondent increase in price.
Her conduct stayed correspondent with the standards she preached.
Similarmatching, consistent, commensurate, proportionate
Oppositeinconsistent
- 5Conforming to rules or expectations; obedient and ready to comply.
The steward remained correspondent to his master's every wish.
They raised a correspondent child who rarely questioned instructions.
Similarobedient, compliant, submissive, dutiful
Oppositedisobedient, defiant, rebellious
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Origin
From Latin, either through Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin 'correspondēns', the present participle of 'correspondeō'.