CORRESPONDENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does correspondent mean? 

• CORRESPONDENT (noun)
  The noun CORRESPONDENT has 2 senses:

1. someone who communicates by means of letters

2. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

  Familiarity information: CORRESPONDENT used as a noun is rare.

• CORRESPONDENT (adjective)
  The adjective CORRESPONDENT has 1 sense:

1. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

  Familiarity information: CORRESPONDENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRESPONDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who communicates by means of letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

correspondent; letter writer

Hypernyms ("correspondent" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correspondent"):

pen-friend; pen pal (a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence)

Derivation:

correspond (exchange messages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman

Hypernyms ("correspondent" is a kind of...):

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "correspondent"):

foreign correspondent (a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast)

war correspondent (a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast)

• CORRESPONDENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

Synonyms:

analogous; correspondent

Context example:

salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar

Similar:

similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)

Derivation:

correspond (be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics)

correspond (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

correspond (take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to)

correspondence (similarity by virtue of corresponding)

correspondence (the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount)

 Context examples 

We are not likely to meet often, for some time to come; but I shall be a good correspondent of Dora's, and we shall frequently hear of one another that way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Often in my dreams have I thought that I might live to be a war correspondent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There are a number of great special correspondents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is one correspondent who is a sure draw, Watson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His only correspondent, so far as I know, was his own father.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Eyre has been the Funchal correspondent of his house for some years.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She is his principal correspondent, I assure you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Poor dear fellow! continued Mrs Musgrove; he was grown so steady, and such an excellent correspondent, while he was under your care!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)