correspondent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dənt/

Adjective

correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.

   • 1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:

     [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.

   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:

     […] and he exhibited a picture of mental stupor and abstraction, dreadful for Oriana to contemplate! producing in her, as from magnetic attraction, correspondent emotions, which with the utmost difficulty she restrained.

2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

Translations

corresponding — see corresponding

conforming

• Bulgarian: съответен (bg) (sǎotveten)
• Dutch: overeenkomend (nl), overeenstemmend (nl)
• Russian: согла́сный (ru) m (soglásnyj), соотве́тственный (ru) m (sootvétstvennyj)

Noun

correspondent (plural correspondents)

1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Hyponyms

• stringer

Derived terms

• correspondential
• correspondently
• correspondentship
• discorrespondent
• foreign correspondent
• news correspondent
• noncorrespondent
• tapespondent
• uncorrespondent
• war correspondent

 

Translations

one who corresponds

• Dutch: correspondent (nl) m
• Hungarian: levelező (hu)
• Italian: corrispondente (it) m or f
• Manx: co-screeuder m
• Russian: корреспонде́нт (ru) (korrespondént)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhaiche m
• Volapük: spodan (vo)

journalist

• Arabic: مُرَاسِل m (murāsil), مُرَاسِلَة f (murāsila)
• Armenian: թղթակից (hy) (tʻġtʻakicʻ)
• Azerbaijani: müxbir
• Belarusian: карэспандэ́нт m (karespandént), карэспандэ́нтка f (karespandéntka), дапі́шчык m (dapíščyk), дапі́шчыца f (dapíščyca)
• Bulgarian: кореспонде́нт (bg) m (korespondént), кореспонде́нтка f (korespondéntka)
• Catalan: corresponsal (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特派員／特派员 (zh) (tèpàiyuán) (special), 記者／记者 (zh) (jìzhě)

• Czech: dopisovatel m, dopisovatelka f, korespondent m, korespondentka f
• Danish: korrespondent c
• Dutch: correspondent (nl) m
• Estonian: korrespondent
• Finnish: kirjeenvaihtaja (fi)
• French: correspondant (fr) m, correspondante (fr) f
• Georgian: კორესპონდენტი (ḳoresṗondenṭi)
• German: Korrespondent (de) m, Korrespondentin (de) f
• Greek: ανταποκριτής (el) m (antapokritís), ανταποκρίτρια (el) f (antapokrítria)
• Hungarian: tudósító (hu)
• Indonesian: koresponden (id)
• Italian: corrispondente (it) m or f, inviato (it) m, inviata (it) f
• Japanese: 通信員 (つうしんいん, tsūshin'in), 特派員 (ja) (とくはいん, tokuhain), 記者 (ja) (きしゃ, kisha)
• Korean: 언론인(言論人) (ko) (eollonin), 특파원(特派員) (ko) (teukpawon) (foreign, special), 통신원(通信員) (tongsinwon), 기자(記者) (ko) (gija)
• Macedonian: дописник m (dopisnik), дописничка f (dopisnička)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сурвалжлагч (mn) (survalžlagč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korrespondent m

• Persian: خبرنگار (fa) (xabar-negâr)
• Polish: korespondent (pl) m, korespondentka (pl) f
• Romanian: corespondent (ro) m, corespondentă (ro) f
• Russian: корреспонде́нт (ru) (korrespondént), корреспонде́нтка (ru) f (korrespondéntka)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: до̀писнӣк m, до̀писница f

  Roman: dòpisnīk (sh) m, dòpisnica (sh) f

• Slovak: dopisovateľ m, dopisovateľka f, korešpondent m, korešpondentka f
• Slovene: dopisnik m, dopisnica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: korespondent m, korespondentka f

• Spanish: corresponsal m or f
• Swedish: korrespondent (sv) c
• Tajik: мухбир (muxbir), корреспондент (korrespondent), хабарнигор (tg) (xabarnigor)
• Turkish: muhabir (tr)
• Ukrainian: кореспонде́нт (uk) m (korespondént), кореспонде́нтка (uk) f (korespondéntka), допи́сувач m (dopýsuvač), допи́сувачка f (dopýsuvačka)
• Urdu: نامہ نگار (nāmā-nigār)
• Vietnamese: phóng viên (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} кореспондент (bg) (korespondent), ^{(please verify)} дописник (bg) (dopisnik)
• Manx: ^{(please verify)} co-reggyrtagh m
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} correspondent m (Jersey)

See also

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

References

• “correspondent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• korrespondent (before 1996)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.rɛs.pɔnˈdɛnt/, /ˌkɔ.rə.spɔnˈdɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cor‧res‧pon‧dent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)

1. a correspondent, in particular a reporter

Related terms

• correspondentie
• corresponderen

Descendants

• → Indonesian: korèspondèn

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃d/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of correspondre

Latin

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of correspondeō

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)

1. (Jersey) correspondent