correspondence

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns, IPA: /ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns/, SAMPA: /%kQrI"spQd@ns/

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Noun

correspondence (countable and uncountable; plural correspondences)

1. (uncountable) Friendly discussion.
2. (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
3. (uncountable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
4. (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally.
5. (uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
6. (set theory, countable) Another name for a relation.

Translations

exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.

Bulgarian: кореспонденция (bg) Esperanto: korespondaĵo (eo)

Finnish: kirjeenvaihto (fi) Russian: переписка (ru) (p'er'epíska) f.

An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.

Bulgarian: съответствие (bg)

Russian: соответствие (ru) (sootv'étstvije) n.

Newspaper or news stories

Bulgarian: кореспонденция Italian: corrispondenza (it)

Russian: корреспонденция (ru) (korr'espond'éncija) f.

Postal or other written communications

Bulgarian: кореспонденция Dutch: correspondentie (nl) f. French: correspondance (fr) f.

Kulere: huhu Russian: корреспонденция (ru) (korr'espond'éncija) f.

(set theory)

Bulgarian: съответствие

Russian: соответствие (ru) (sootv'étstvije) n.

Friendly discussion

See also

• correspondent