Definition

1. Noun:

   • A journalist who reports on news from a particular place or on a specific subject: A person employed by a news organization to gather and report news, often from a remote location or a specialized field.
   • A person who writes letters to another: Someone who exchanges letters with another person, typically on a regular basis.

2. Adjective:

   • Similar or equivalent in some respects; analogous: Having a close similarity, relation, or correspondence to something else.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Journalist):
  • The newspaper's foreign correspondent filed a report from the capital.
  • She worked as a war correspondent for several years.
• Noun (Letter Writer):
  • They were regular correspondents for over a decade, sharing their lives through letters.
• Adjective:
  • The increase in profit was correspondent with the rise in sales.
  • His actions were not correspondent to his promises.

Advanced Usage

• "Special correspondent": A journalist with expertise in a specific area (e.g., economics, science) who provides in-depth reports.
  • The network's special correspondent on climate change will host the documentary.
• "To be correspondent with/to something": To be in agreement or harmony with something; to match.
  • The final results were correspondent with the initial predictions.

Variants and Related Words

• Correspondence (n): 1. Communication by exchanging letters. 2. A close similarity, connection, or equivalence.
  • They kept up a lifelong correspondence.
  • There is a clear correspondence between the two theories.
• Correspond (v): 1. To communicate by exchange of letters. 2. To be in agreement, harmony, or conformity.
  • We correspond via email.
  • The witness's account corresponds with the evidence.

Synonyms

• Noun (Journalist): Reporter, journalist, newscaster, stringer.
• Noun (Letter Writer): Pen pal, letter writer.
• Adjective: Analogous, equivalent, comparable, matching, commensurate.

Related Phrases

• Foreign correspondent: A journalist stationed in a foreign country to report news from there.
  • The foreign correspondent provided live updates from the summit.
• Chief correspondent: The senior or lead reporter for a news organization on a particular subject or in a specific region.
  • He was promoted to chief correspondent for European affairs.

Idioms

• No direct idioms are commonly formed with the single word "correspondent."

Adjective

1. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
   • brains and computers are often considered analogous
   • salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar

Noun

1. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
2. someone who communicates by means of letters