correspondent

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who communicates by means of letters
  2. noun a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
  3. adjective similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.

In classic literature

Synonyms

letter writer

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