Correspondent Meaning
/ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCorresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
adjConforming; obedient.
Sentence Examples
The correspondent filed a report from Moscow.
The newspaper recalled the special correspondent to the main office in Tokyo.
A correspondent must soon adjust himself to life abroad.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The foreign ____ reported live from the war-torn capital city.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ filed a report from Moscow.
Word Origin & History
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law."
— [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
"[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs."
— 1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:
"[…]and he exhibited a picture of mental stupor and abstraction, dreadful for Oriana to contemplate! producing in her, as from magnetic attraction, correspondent emotions, which with the utmost difficulty she restrained."
— 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:
"ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently."
— 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
"Both kála and kalánka have widespread correspondents in the western Mediterranean Romance languages."
— 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 442:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The foreign ____ reported live from the war-torn capital city.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ filed a report from Moscow.