correspondence
Americannoun
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communication by exchange of letters.
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a letter or letters that pass between correspondents.
It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.
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Also an instance of corresponding.
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similarity or analogy.
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agreement; conformity.
- Synonyms:
- consonance, concord, accord
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news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
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Mathematics. function.
noun
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the act or condition of agreeing or corresponding
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similarity or analogy
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agreement or conformity
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communication by the exchange of letters
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the letters so exchanged
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Etymology
Origin of correspondence
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin corrēspondentia. See correspondent, -ence
Explanation
Correspondence is a body of letters or communications. If you've ever had a pen pal or an email buddy, you’ve written plenty of correspondence. Besides referring to that stack of love letters you've bound up with ribbon, correspondence has a couple of other meanings, too. When you and your friend hold similar opinions about a particular subject, your thoughts are in correspondence, or "agreement." In mathematics, symmetrical objects are in correspondence — that is, they mirror each other exactly.
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Example Sentences
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District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026
It's just one of the original documents including original maps, correspondence and first-hand accounts, to feature in the exhibition at the UK's National Archives in southwest London which opens on Wednesday.
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
While her name is hidden, people familiar with the matter have identified her correspondence and described her interactions with Gates and Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
At the time, Musk called Karpathy “arguably the #2 guy” in the world in computer vision, according to email correspondence made public as part of Musk’s recent lawsuit against OpenAI.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
It took the correspondence to recover the friendship, not the other way around.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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