correspondent
pronunciation
How to pronounce correspondent in British English:
UK [ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt]
How to pronounce correspondent in American English:
US [ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndənt]
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- Noun:
- someone who communicates by means of letters
- a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
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- Adjective:
- similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
Word Origin
- correspondent (adj.)
- early 15c., "having an analogous relationship" (to), a sense taken up since 19c. by corresponding; from Medieval Latin correspondentem, present participle of correspondere (see correspond).
- correspondent (n.)
- "one who communicates with another by letters," 1620s, from correspondent (adj.). The newspaper sense is from 1711. THE life of a newspaper correspondent, as may naturally be supposed, is one of alternate cloud and sunshine--one day basking in an Andalusian balcony, playing a rubber at the club on the off-nights of the Opera, being very musical when the handsome Prima Donna sings, and very light fantastic toeish when the lively Prima Ballerina dances; another day roughing it over the Balkan, amid sleet and snow, or starving at the tail of an ill-conditioned army, and receiving bullets instead of billets-doux. ["New Monthly Magazine," vol. 95, 1852, p.284]
Example
- 1. Greg farrell is the ft 's wall street correspondent .
- 2. Correspondent rama lakshmi in mumbai contributed to this report .
- 3. Conference moderator and national public radio correspondent pam fessler echoed kellner 's sentiments , noting that more vulnerabilities enter the electoral process as reliance on technology increases .
- 4. Your correspondent has a handful of them .
- 5. Vincent boland is the ft 's milan correspondent .