adj
Meaning 1
Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
correspondent
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/
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General-American: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/
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Australian: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dənt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Conforming; obedient.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
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noun
Meaning 5
A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- brains and computers are often considered analogous
- salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: analogous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
someone who communicates by means of letters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: letter writer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicator
Narrower terms: pen pal, pen-friend
noun
Meaning 8
a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: journalist
Narrower terms: foreign correspondent, war correspondent
History
Etymology
From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
Across languages
Translations
95 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: съответен (sǎotveten) — conforming
- Dutch: overeenkomend — conforming
- Dutch: overeenstemmend — conforming
- Russian: согла́сный (soglásnyj) — conforming
- Russian: соотве́тственный (sootvétstvennyj) — conforming
- Dutch: correspondent — one who corresponds
- Hungarian: levelező — one who corresponds
- Italian: corrispondente — one who corresponds
- Manx: co-screeuder — one who corresponds
- Russian: корреспонде́нт (korrespondént) — one who corresponds
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhaiche — one who corresponds
- Volapük: spodan — one who corresponds
- Welsh: gohebydd — one who corresponds
- Arabic: مُرَاسِل (murāsil) — journalist
- Arabic: مُرَاسِلَة (murāsila) — journalist
- Armenian: թղթակից (tʻġtʻakicʻ) — journalist
- Azerbaijani: müxbir — journalist
- Belarusian: карэспандэ́нт (karespandént) — journalist
- Belarusian: карэспандэ́нтка (karespandéntka) — journalist
- Belarusian: дапі́шчык (dapíščyk) — journalist
- Belarusian: дапі́шчыца (dapíščyca) — journalist
- Bulgarian: кореспонде́нт (korespondént) — journalist
- Bulgarian: кореспонде́нтка (korespondéntka) — journalist
- Catalan: corresponsal — journalist
- Chinese Mandarin: 特派員 /特派员 (tèpàiyuán) — journalist
- Chinese Mandarin: 記者 /记者 (jìzhě) — journalist
- Czech: dopisovatel — journalist
- Czech: dopisovatelka — journalist
- Czech: korespondent — journalist
- Czech: korespondentka — journalist
- Danish: korrespondent — journalist
- Dutch: correspondent — journalist
- Estonian: korrespondent — journalist
- Finnish: kirjeenvaihtaja — journalist
- French: correspondant — journalist
- French: correspondante — journalist
- Galician: correspondente — journalist
- Georgian: კორესპონდენტი (ḳoresṗondenṭi) — journalist
- German: Korrespondent — journalist
- German: Korrespondentin — journalist
- Greek: ανταποκριτής (antapokritís) — journalist
- Greek: ανταποκρίτρια (antapokrítria) — journalist
- Hindi: संवाददाता (samvāddātā) — journalist
- Hungarian: tudósító — journalist
- Indonesian: koresponden — journalist
- Italian: corrispondente — journalist
- Italian: inviato — journalist
- Italian: inviata — journalist
- Japanese: 通信員 (tsūshin'in) — journalist
- Japanese: 特派員 (tokuhain) — journalist
- Japanese: 記者 (kisha) — journalist
- Korean: 언론인 (eollonin) — journalist
- Korean: 특파원 (teukpawon) — journalist
- Korean: 통신원 (tongsinwon) — journalist
- Korean: 기자 (gija) — journalist
- Macedonian: дописник (dopisnik) — journalist
- Macedonian: дописничка (dopisnička) — journalist
- Mongolian: сурвалжлагч (survalžlagč) — journalist
- Norwegian Bokmål: korrespondent — journalist
- Persian: خبرنگار (xabar-negâr) — journalist
- Polish: korespondent — journalist
- Polish: korespondentka — journalist
- Romanian: corespondent — journalist
- Romanian: corespondentă — journalist
- Russian: корреспонде́нт (korrespondént) — journalist
- Russian: корреспонде́нтка (korrespondéntka) — journalist
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhaiche — journalist
- Serbo-Croatian: до̀писнӣк — journalist
- Serbo-Croatian: до̀писница — journalist
- Serbo-Croatian: dòpisnīk — journalist
- Serbo-Croatian: dòpisnica — journalist
- Slovak: dopisovateľ — journalist
- Slovak: dopisovateľka — journalist
- Slovak: korešpondent — journalist
- Slovak: korešpondentka — journalist
- Slovene: dopisnik — journalist
- Slovene: dopisnica — journalist
- Lower Sorbian: korespondent — journalist
- Lower Sorbian: korespondentka — journalist
- Spanish: corresponsal — journalist
- Swedish: korrespondent — journalist
- Tajik: мухбир (muxbir) — journalist
- Tajik: корреспондент (korrespondent) — journalist
- Tajik: хабарнигор (xabarnigor) — journalist
- Turkish: muhabir — journalist
- Ukrainian: кореспонде́нт (korespondént) — journalist
- Ukrainian: кореспонде́нтка (korespondéntka) — journalist
- Ukrainian: допи́сувач (dopýsuvač) — journalist
- Ukrainian: допи́сувачка (dopýsuvačka) — journalist
- Urdu: نامہ نگار (nāmā-nigār) — journalist
- Uyghur: ئاخباراتچى (axbaratchi) — journalist
- Uzbek: muxbir — journalist
- Vietnamese: phóng viên — journalist
- Welsh: gohebydd — journalist
- Welsh: newyddiadurwr — journalist
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