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CORRESPONDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who communicates by means of letters
Synonyms:
correspondent; letter writer
Classified under:
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
Synonyms:
correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
Example:
salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar
Synonyms:
analogous; correspondent
Classified under:
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:
Yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There is no indication as to the sender, and the matter is the more mysterious as Miss Cushing, who is a maiden lady of fifty, has led a most retired life, and has so few acquaintances or correspondents that it is a rare event for her to receive anything through the post.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend’s noble correspondent could be.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So now you will understand, my dear Mr. McArdle, how this communication reaches you, and you will also know the truth, in case you never hear again from your unfortunate correspondent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the "bloofer lady" is supremely funny.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If he has had no visitors, that prompting must have come in letters; hence I try to find out who were his correspondents.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Oh! the blessing of a female correspondent, when one is really interested in the absent!—she will tell me every thing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
