correspondence

[ kawr-uh-spon-duhns, kor- ]

noun

1. communication by exchange of letters.
2. a letter or letters that pass between correspondents:

   It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.

3. Also an instance of corresponding. correspond.
4. similarity or analogy.
5. agreement; conformity.

   Synonyms: consonance, concord, accord

6. news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
7. Mathematics. function ( def 4a ).

correspondence

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns /

noun

1. the act or condition of agreeing or corresponding
2. similarity or analogy
3. agreement or conformity
4. 1. communication by the exchange of letters
   2. the letters so exchanged

Other Words From

• noncor·res·pondence noun
• precor·re·spondence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of correspondence¹

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin corrēspondentia. See correspondent, -ence

Example Sentences

Richard Russell’s name was used to signed off all correspondence, including order confirmation letters and customer service emails.

From BBC

In an email, seen by the BBC, the club told her they had passed her correspondence onto the Premier League and the FA.

From BBC

Speaking about the response Kira told the BBC their correspondence has “reinforced a devastating message that I don’t matter, that more women coming forward doesn’t matter, and that even when I meet safeguarding requirements, it will never matter”.

From BBC

After more than 600 days of denied visits, calls and correspondence, the jailed Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has been allowed to see her father in prison.

From BBC

Thus began Anolik’s trip back into Babitz’s past via a large cache of correspondence that revealed, among other things, her sometimes convivial, often fraught relationship with Joan Didion when the writer, who was nine years older, was the queen bee of L.A.’s lit scene and a key figure in Babitz’s creative life.

From Los Angeles Times

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