correspondence

English

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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/, X-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) A relation.

Translations

friendly discussion

reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters

• Bulgarian: кореспонденция (bg) (korespondéncija) f
• Catalan: correspondència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通信 (cmn) (tōngxìn), 通訊 (cmn), 通讯 (cmn) (tōngxùn)

• Esperanto: korespondaĵo (eo)

• Finnish: kirjeenvaihto (fi) (by letters)
• French: correspondance (fr) f
• German: Briefwechsel (de) m, Korrespondenz (de) f
• Japanese: 文通 (ja) (ぶんつう, buntsū), 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin)
• Russian: переписка (ru) (perepíska) f, корреспонденция (ru) (korrespondéncija) f

agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome

• Bulgarian: съответствие (bg) (sǎotvétstvie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對應 (cmn), 对应 (cmn) (duìyìng)

• Finnish: vastaavuus (fi)

• French: correspondance (fr) f
• German: Korrespondenz (de) f
• Japanese: 対応 (ja) (たいおう, taiō)
• Russian: соответствие (ru) (sootvétstvije) n, соотношение (ru) (sootnošénije) n

newspaper or news stories generally

• Bulgarian: кореспонденция (bg) (korespondéncija) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通訊 (cmn), 通讯 (cmn) (tōngxùn)

• Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl

• German: Korrespondenz (de) f
• Italian: corrispondenza (it)
• Japanese: 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin)
• Russian: корреспонденция (ru) (korrespondéncija) f

postal or other written communications

• Bulgarian: кореспонденция (bg) (korespondéncija) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書簡 (cmn), 书简 (cmn) (shūjiǎn), 函件 (cmn) (hánjiàn)

• Dutch: correspondentie (nl) f
• French: correspondance (fr) f
• German: Korrespondenz (de) f

• Japanese: 書簡 (ja) (しょかん, shokan)
• Jèrriais: correspondance f
• Kulere: huhu
• Russian: корреспонденция (ru) (korrespondéncija) f, переписка (ru) (perepíska) f (exchange)

set theory

• Bulgarian: съответствие (bg) (sǎotvétstvie) n

• Russian: соответствие (ru) (sootvétstvije) n, соотношение (ru) (sootnošénije) n

See also

• correspondent