correspondent

American  

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

noun

• correspondents
  plural

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.

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

Derived Forms

• noncorrespondent
  adjective
• precorrespondent
  adjective
• correspondently
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• correspondents
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of correspondent

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

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Explanation

A correspondent is a reporter who writes or records stories on one topic or from one region. If you're hired as a radio station's financial correspondent, you'll need to do a lot of research on the economy. A journalist might work as a TV station's Middle East correspondent or a newspaper's education correspondent. You can also call yourself a correspondent if you're a regular letter or email writer, corresponding, or communicating, with someone. As an adjective, though, correspondent means "matching or agreeing." The word is rooted in the Medieval Latin correspondere, "to answer together."

Example Sentences

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Viewers can see the information before CNN chief national correspondent John King presents the results on the network’s Magic Wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions after the race in Austin.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The BBC's Africa correspondent Barbara Plett Usher speaks to two doctors who support the claims of systemic targeting of hospitals.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

An AFP correspondent in Daraa city saw hundreds rallying, some waving Syrian flags.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

He told me that the man was a special correspondent for a Paris paper.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Bojan is the only foreign recipient of the Werner Holzer Award, which honors the work of German foreign correspondents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Palestinian freelancer Mahmoud Abu Hamda on Saturday won the photography category in the prestigious Bayeux award for war correspondents for his work from Gaza.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The BBC's correspondents who covered the address have picked five key moments that stood out.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Without access to the grounds, affected journalists also lose their regular workspace and access to areas such as Reporters’ Lane, where television correspondents frequently deliver live reports from the White House complex.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

That Prendergast had selected Trude to be one of his correspondents was not surprising.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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