Definitions for: Correspondent


[n] someone who communicates by means of letters
[n] a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
[adj] similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat"



Webster (1913) Definition: Cor`re*spond"ent (-ent), a. [Cf. F.
correspondant.]
Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous;
conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
--Hooker.

As fast the correspondent passions rise. --Thomson.

I will be correspondent to command. --Shak.


Cor`re*spond"ent, n.
1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
--Macaulay.

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or
telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter
or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Synonyms: analogous, letter writer, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman, similar

See Also: communicator, journalist, pen pal, pen-friend

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