English Explanatory Dictionary

correspondence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Mutual communication or discourse:
  2. Friendly discussion.
  3. Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
  4. Newspaper or news stories.
  5. Postal or other written communications.
  6. Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
  7. An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
  8. A relation.
  9. A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

Pronunciation

kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/ /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns/ En-us-correspondence.ogg /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑn.dəns/ /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dəns/ /ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɔn.dəns/ [ˌkɔ̟ɹ.əˈspɔ̟n.dəns] /kərəsˈpɔɳɖəɳs/

Word forms

correspondence correspondences

Etymology

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

Related words

correspondent

Derived words

correspondence chess correspondence course correspondence principle Curry-Howard correspondence grapheme-phoneme correspondence incorrespondence law of correspondence lexical correspondence noncorrespondence Robinson-Schensted correspondence tapespondence
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