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correspondence

noun · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
  • General-American, dialectal: /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/ of Canada
  • General-American, dialectal: /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns/ of Canada
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, dialectal: /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ of the US
  • Canada, dialectal: /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ of the US
  • New-York-City: /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑn.dəns/
  • Australian: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dəns/
  • Australian: /ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɔn.dəns/
  • New-Zealand: /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
  • New-Zealand: [ˌkɔ̟ɹ.əˈspɔ̟n.dəns]
  • CMU ARPABET: K AO2 R AH0 S P AA1 N D AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Mutual communication or discourse:

Friendly discussion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Mutual communication or discourse:

Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Mutual communication or discourse:

Newspaper or news stories.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Mutual communication or discourse:

Postal or other written communications.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:

An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:

A relation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:

A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

compatibility of observations

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • there was no agreement between theory and measurement
  • the results of two tests were in correspondence

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: agreement

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: compatibility

Narrower terms: conformity, conformance

9

noun

Meaning 9

similarity by virtue of corresponding

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: parallelism

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: similarity

10

noun

Meaning 10

(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: symmetry, symmetricalness, balance

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spatial property, spatiality

Narrower terms: regularity, geometrical regularity, bilaterality, bilateralism, bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry

11

noun

Meaning 11

communication by the exchange of letters

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: first class, 1st class, first-class mail, 1st-class mail, written communication, written language, black and white

Narrower terms: card

12

noun

Meaning 12

the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: proportionality

History

Etymology

From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.

Across languages

Translations

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: бесе́да (beséda) — friendly discussion
  • Russian: бесе́да (beséda) — friendly discussion
  • Tagalog: filipino — friendly discussion
  • Tagalog: pakikipagtalastasan — friendly discussion
  • Arabic: مُرَاسَلَة (murāsala) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Belarusian: перапíска (pjerapíska) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Belarusian: карэспандэ́нцыя (karespandéncyja) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (korespondéncija) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Bulgarian: пре́писка (prépiska) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Catalan: correspondència — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Chinese Mandarin: 通信 (tōngxìn) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Chinese Mandarin: 通訊 /通讯 (tōngxùn) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Danish: brevveksling — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Danish: korrespondance — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Dutch: briefwisseling — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Dutch: correspondentie — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Esperanto: korespondaĵo — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Finnish: kirjeenvaihto — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • French: correspondance — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Georgian: კორესპონდენცია (ḳoresṗondencia) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Georgian: მიმოწერა (mimoc̣era) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • German: Briefwechsel — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • German: Korrespondenz — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Italian: corrispondenza — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Italian: carteggio — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Japanese: 文通 (buntsū) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Japanese: 通信 (tsūshin) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Korean: 통신 (tongsin) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Korean: 문통 (muntong) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Macedonian: преписка (prepiska) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brevveksling — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Plautdietsch: Breefwakjsel — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Polish: korespondencja — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Portuguese: correspondência — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Romanian: corespondență — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Russian: перепи́ска (perepíska) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Russian: корреспонде́нция (korrespondéncija) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Spanish: correspondencia — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Spanish: carteo — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Swedish: brevväxling — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Swedish: korrespondens — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Turkish: yazışma — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Turkish: haberleşme — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Ukrainian: листува́ння (lystuvánnja) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Ukrainian: кореспонде́нція (korespondéncija) — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Welsh: gohebiaeth — reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
  • Belarusian: адпаве́днасць (adpavjédnascʹ) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Belarusian: адпаве́днасьць (adpavjédnasʹcʹ) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (sǎotvétstvie) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Bulgarian: съотноше́ние (sǎotnošénie) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Catalan: correspondència — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Chinese Mandarin: 對應 /对应 (duìyìng) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Finnish: vastaavuus — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • French: correspondance — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Georgian: შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • German: Korrespondenz — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • German: Übereinstimmung — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Japanese: 対応 (taiō) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Korean: 대응 (daeeung) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Polish: odpowiedniość — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Polish: zgodność — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Portuguese: correspondência — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Romanian: corespondență — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Romanian: concordanță — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Russian: соотве́тствие (sootvétstvije) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Russian: соотноше́ние (sootnošénije) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Ukrainian: відпові́дність (vidpovídnistʹ) — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Welsh: cyfatebiaeth — agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome
  • Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (korespondéncija) — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Catalan: notícies — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Catalan: correspondència — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Chinese Mandarin: 通訊 /通讯 (tōngxùn) — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Finnish: lehdet — newspaper or news stories generally
  • French: chronique — newspaper or news stories generally
  • French: correspondance — newspaper or news stories generally
  • German: Korrespondenz — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Greek: ανταπόκριση (antapókrisi) — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Italian: corrispondenza — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Japanese: 通信 (tsūshin) — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Polish: korespondencja — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Portuguese: notícias — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Romanian: corespondență — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Russian: корреспонде́нция (korrespondéncija) — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Spanish: noticias — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Turkish: haber — newspaper or news stories generally
  • Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (korespondéncija) — postal or other written communications
  • Catalan: carteig — postal or other written communications
  • Chinese Mandarin: 書簡 /书简 (shūjiǎn) — postal or other written communications
  • Chinese Mandarin: 函件 (hánjiàn) — postal or other written communications
  • Dutch: correspondentie — postal or other written communications
  • French: correspondance — postal or other written communications
  • German: Korrespondenz — postal or other written communications
  • German: Schriftverkehr — postal or other written communications
  • German: Briefwechsel — postal or other written communications
  • Greek: αλληλογραφία (allilografía) — postal or other written communications
  • Hebrew: התכתבות — postal or other written communications
  • Hindi: पत्र-व्यवहार (patra-vyavhār) — postal or other written communications
  • Hindi: पत्राचार (patrācār) — postal or other written communications
  • Hindi: चिट्ठी-पत्री (ciṭṭhī-patrī) — postal or other written communications
  • Hindi: ख़त-किताबत (xat-kitābat) — postal or other written communications
  • Hindi: लिखापढ़ी (likhāpaṛhī) — postal or other written communications
  • Japanese: 書簡 (shokan) — postal or other written communications
  • Kulere: huhu — postal or other written communications
  • Norman: correspondance — postal or other written communications
  • Norwegian Bokmål: korrespondanse — postal or other written communications
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: korrespondanse — postal or other written communications
  • Portuguese: correspondência — postal or other written communications
  • Romanian: corespondență — postal or other written communications
  • Russian: корреспонде́нция (korrespondéncija) — postal or other written communications
  • Russian: перепи́ска (perepíska) — postal or other written communications
  • Slovak: korešpondencia — postal or other written communications
  • Spanish: correspondencia — postal or other written communications
  • Tagalog: palihaman — postal or other written communications
  • Turkish: mektuplaşma — postal or other written communications
  • Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (sǎotvétstvie) — set theory
  • Catalan: correspondència — set theory
  • Chinese Mandarin: 對應關係 /对应关系 (duìyìng guānxi) — set theory
  • Norwegian Bokmål: korrespondanse — set theory
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: korrespondanse — set theory
  • Portuguese: correspondência — set theory
  • Romanian: corespondență — set theory
  • Russian: соотве́тствие (sootvétstvije) — set theory
  • Russian: соотноше́ние (sootnošénije) — set theory
  • Spanish: correspondencia — set theory
Real reading context

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