correspondent

[ kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor- ]

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.

adjective

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

correspondent

/ 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

adjective

1. similar or analogous

Other Words From

• corre·spondent·ly adverb
• noncor·res·pondent adjective noun
• precor·re·spondent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of correspondent¹

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

Example Sentences

The question may have seemed gimmicky to some, but as NBC News political correspondent Sahil Kapur noted, familiarity with local agricultural concerns has been important to Iowa voters in the past.

From Vox

Pottinger had served as a Marine intelligence officer and worked in China as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

From ProPublica

Conversation editor Nabeelah Shabbir at The English-language Correspondent is tasked with driving interaction between its over 50,000 paying members and the site’s five full-time journalists, who it calls correspondents, and freelancers.

From Digiday

Banks have hired thousands of employees to beef up anti-money laundering and financial crime teams, and some withdrew from certain countries and dropped correspondent-banking ties with hundreds of smaller lenders.

From Fortune

Ginger Thompson, senior reporter, has been promoted to chief of correspondents, reporting to Managing Editor Robin Fields.

From ProPublica

The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.

From The Daily Beast

That good fortune meant CNN had the only TV correspondent on the scene.

From The Daily Beast

There she met Janet Flanner, who would become a famed New Yorker correspondent “Genet”—for three decades.

From The Daily Beast

Booker plans to spend his Thanksgiving dinner with CBS correspondent Gayle King and their families.

From The Daily Beast

Every artist-correspondent and writer-correspondent who could possibly get permission to be there, was there.

From The Daily Beast

He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.

From Project Gutenberg

Such is the opinion of this Correspondent to the Times, and it is doubtless the opinion of a fair and just majority.

From Project Gutenberg

Your correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.

From Project Gutenberg

The success of his imitation of Coleridge's style is proved by the indignation of your correspondent.

From Project Gutenberg

We accept with thanks the polite offer made by our Correspondent in his postscript.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• contributor
• journalist
• reporter
• writer