correspondent noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Definition of correspondent noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

correspondent

noun
 
 
/ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt/
 
/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndənt/
jump to other results
  1.  
    a person who reports news from a particular country or on a particular subject for a newspaper or a television or radio station
    • She's the BBC's political correspondent.
    • a foreign/war/sports correspondent
    • our Delhi correspondent
    Wordfinder
    Extra Examples
    • a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper
    • Now, a report from our Hong Kong correspondent.
    Topics Literature and writingc1, TV, radio and newsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • network
    • news
    • newspaper
    • …
    correspondent + verb
    • cover something
    • report (something)
    • write (something)
    • …
    preposition
    • correspondent for
    See full entry
  2.  
    (used with an adjective) a person who writes letters, emails, etc. to another person
    • She's a poor correspondent (= she does not write regularly).
    • He was a vivid and witty correspondent.
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French correspondant or medieval Latin correspondent- ‘corresponding’, from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.
See correspondent in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee correspondent in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
Check pronunciation: correspondent

Nearby words

utilize
verb
 
 
From the Word list
OPAL written words
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day