Correspondent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\ (-ent), a. [Cf. F.
     correspondant.]
     Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous;
     conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
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           Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
                                                    --Hooker.
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           As fast the correspondent passions rise. --Thomson.
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           I will be correspondent to command.      --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\, n.
     1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
        --Macaulay.
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     2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or
        telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
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     3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter
        or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  correspondent
       adj : similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise
             dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered
             analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to
             crabmeat" [syn: {analogous}]
       n 1: someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: {letter
            writer}]
       2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers
          or broadcast media [syn: {newspaperman}, {newspaperwoman},
           {newswriter}, {pressman}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  210 Moby Thesaurus words for "correspondent":
     accordant, accused, addressee, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing,
     alike, all one, all the same, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogous,
     analogue, answerable, answering, associate, at one, automatic,
     balanced, brother, city editor, close copy, close match, coequal,
     coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, cognate, coherent, coincident,
     coincidental, coinciding, columnist, commensurate, communicator,
     companion, comparable, compatible, complement, complemental,
     complementary, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenator,
     congener, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous,
     consentient, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous,
     convertible, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, copy chief,
     copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correlate, correlative,
     corresponding, coterminous, counterpart, cub reporter, defendant,
     diaskeuast, duplicate, each other, editor, editorial writer,
     en rapport, equable, equal, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent,
     even, feature editor, fellow, flat, foreign correspondent,
     gazetteer, harmonious, homogeneous, homologous, identical, image,
     immutable, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync,
     in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, interviewer,
     invariable, journalist, kindred spirit, leader writer, leg man,
     letter writer, level, libelee, like, like-minded, likeness,
     managing editor, match, matching, mate, measured, mechanical,
     methodic, monolithic, much the same, near duplicate, news editor,
     newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, obverse,
     of a kind, of a piece, of a size, of like mind, of one mind,
     on all fours, one another, ordered, orderly, own correspondent,
     paragrapher, paragraphist, parallel, paralleling, pen pal, pendant,
     persistent, picture, positive, pressman, prisoner, proportionate,
     publicist, reader, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocative,
     reciprocator, reconcilable, regular, reporter, respondent, reviser,
     rewrite man, rewriter, robotlike, second self, self-consistent,
     similitude, simulacrum, sister, slotman, smooth, sob sister,
     soul mate, special correspondent, sports editor, stable, steadfast,
     steady, stringer, subeditor, such, suchlike, suspect, symbiotic,
     synchronized, synchronous, synonymous, systematic, tally,
     tantamount, the like of, the likes of, twin, unanimous, unbroken,
     unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated,
     undiversified, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, unruffled, unvaried,
     unvarying, war correspondent, writer