correspondent

American  

[kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr- /

noun

1. a person who communicates by letters.

2. a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.

3. a person who contributes a letter or letters to a newspaper, magazine, etc.

4. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, especially at a distance.

5. a thing that corresponds to something else.

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adjective

1. consistent, similar, or analogous; corresponding. correspond.

correspondent British  

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt /

noun

1. a person who communicates by letter or by letters

2. a person employed by a newspaper, etc, to report on a special subject or to send reports from a foreign country

3. a person or firm that has regular business relations with another, esp one in a different part of the country or abroad

4. something that corresponds to another

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adjective

1. similar or analogous

Other Word Forms

• correspondently adverb
• noncorrespondent adjective
• precorrespondent adjective

Etymology

Origin of correspondent

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin corrēspondent- (stem of corrēspondēns ), present participle of corrēspondēre to correspond; -ent

Example Sentences

He was football correspondent of the Sunday Times for 33 years and worked for a host of other publications.

From BBC

Boyle was an unlikely choice when the Oscar nominee was asked by BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson which British personalities he would deem worthy.

From BBC

He served in the Royal Air Force as a pilot in the 1950s, and later worked as a diplomatic correspondent for the BBC, reporting from Nigeria on the Biafran War.

From The Wall Street Journal

The network has hired Matt Gutman, a longtime ABC News journalist, as its chief correspondent, one of Editor in Chief Weiss’s most high-profile hires while she looks to remake the storied news organization.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back in July, that was the path our correspondent Jonathan Head thought would be followed again.

From BBC

Related Words

• contributor
• journalist
• reporter
• writer