WAR CORRESPONDENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does war correspondent mean? 

• WAR CORRESPONDENT (noun)
  The noun WAR CORRESPONDENT has 1 sense:

1. a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast

  Familiarity information: WAR CORRESPONDENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR CORRESPONDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman (a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media)

 Context examples 

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

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)