correspondent

B2 Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/ UK /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/ See IPA manual

Freq #14465

Meanings

1

noun
A journalist who reports news, often from a distant or foreign place.

Our foreign correspondent sent a report from the war zone.
2

noun
A person who writes letters to someone else.

She was a faithful correspondent who replied to every letter within a week.
3

adj
Similar or matching in some way.

Each chapter has a correspondent exercise at the end of the book.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a journalist who reports... newspapermannewswriter

2 noun · a person who writes letters... letter writer

3 adj · similar or matching in some... analogous

More equivalent indistinguishable tantamount

Word family

Forms correspondentscorrespondentship

Derived forms correspondentialcorrespondentlycorrespondentshipdiscorrespondentnoncorrespondenttapespondentuncorrespondent

Related forms agreeablecorespondentdependent simultaneous

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Phrases (1)

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war correspondent
a journalist who reports from a place where fighting is taking place

Noun + noun

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.

correspondēns la-med

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Topics

Places & Geography

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# correspondent

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun, adj
**IPA (US):** /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/
**Frequency rank:** 14465

## Meanings
1. A journalist who reports news, often from a distant or foreign place.
2. A person who writes letters to someone else.
3. Similar or matching in some way.

## Examples
- Our foreign correspondent sent a report from the war zone.
- She was a faithful correspondent who replied to every letter within a week.
- Each chapter has a correspondent exercise at the end of the book.

## Synonyms
- equivalent
- indistinguishable
- tantamount

## Derived Forms
- correspondential
- correspondently
- correspondentship
- discorrespondent
- noncorrespondent
- tapespondent
- uncorrespondent

## Related Forms
- agreeable
- corespondent
- dependent
- simultaneous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: correspondēns
- Affix: -ent - one who

## Etymology
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.

## AI Etymology
correspondent comes from Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō. Current senses include A journalist who reports news, often from a distant or foreign place and A person who writes letters to someone else. English relatives and later formations include correspondential, correspondently, correspondentship, agreeable, corespondent.

## Topics
- Places & Geography

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