Dictionary

correspondence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ (New-Zealand)
• /ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɔn.dəns/ (Australia)
• [ˌkɔ̟ɹ.əˈspɔ̟n.dəns] (New-Zealand)
• /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns
• /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑn.dəns/ (New-York-City)
• /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dəns/ (Australia)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Mutual communication or discourse: ▸ Friendly discussion.
2. (uncountable) Mutual communication or discourse: ▸ Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
3. (uncountable) Mutual communication or discourse: ▸ Newspaper or news stories.
4. (countable, uncountable) Mutual communication or discourse: ▸ Postal or other written communications.
   • I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence. 1985 April 13, Michael Harmon, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
5. (countable, uncountable) Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc
   • For, if praxis signifes the whole of man's part in history, the value of intellectual production as an aspect of that whole is to be measured by the mind's ability to 'express' changing historical situations, and not by the correspondence between some 'objective' universe and the description of it. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191:
6. (countable) Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: ▸ An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
7. (countable) Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: ▸ A relation.
8. (countable, uncountable) Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: ▸ A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

Forms

Deriveds

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

Relateds

correspondent

Synonyms

correspondency

Translations (126)

ca correspondència (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ko 통신 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · tr haber (newspaper or news stories generally) · ja 対応 (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · uk кореспонде́нція (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · uk листува́ння (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · mk преписка (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ca carteig (postal or other written communications) · nb brevveksling (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · fr correspondance (newspaper or news stories generally) · de Briefwechsel (postal or other written communications) · es correspondencia (set theory) · ca correspondència (newspaper or news stories generally) · bg съотноше́ние (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ca correspondència (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · nb korrespondanse (postal or other written communications) · cmn 對應 /对应 (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · bg съотве́тствие (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · es carteo (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ru перепи́ска (postal or other written communications) · cmn 通訊 /通讯 (newspaper or news stories generally) · ru соотве́тствие (set theory) · ru соотноше́ние (set theory) · tl pakikipagtalastasan (friendly discussion) · fi kirjeenvaihto (postal or other written communications) · be адпаве́днасьць (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · de Korrespondenz (newspaper or news stories generally) · ca notícies (newspaper or news stories generally) · de Briefwechsel (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · de Korrespondenz (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · es correspondencia (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ko 대응 (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · de Korrespondenz (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ru корреспонде́нция (postal or other written communications) · pl zgodność (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · nn korrespondanse (postal or other written communications) · pt correspondência (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · uk відпові́дність (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · cmn 書簡 /书简 (postal or other written communications) · eo korespondaĵo (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · tr mektuplaşma (postal or other written communications) · es noticias (newspaper or news stories generally) · de Übereinstimmung (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · bg кореспонде́нция (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ru корреспонде́нция (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ja 書簡 (postal or other written communications) · tr yazışma (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · pt correspondência (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · pl korespondencja (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · be перапíска (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · fr chronique (newspaper or news stories generally) · cmn 對應關係 /对应关系 (set theory) · pl korespondencja (newspaper or news stories generally) · de Korrespondenz (postal or other written communications) · ru перепи́ска (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ru соотноше́ние (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ro corespondență (set theory) · bg кореспонде́нция (postal or other written communications) · fr correspondance (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · fi vastaavuus (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · nrf correspondance (postal or other written communications) · kul huhu (postal or other written communications) · it corrispondenza (newspaper or news stories generally) · el ανταπόκριση (newspaper or news stories generally) · sk korešpondencia (postal or other written communications) · da korrespondance (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · cy gohebiaeth (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · pt correspondência (set theory) · ro corespondență (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ja 通信 (newspaper or news stories generally) · be карэспандэ́нцыя (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · cmn 函件 (postal or other written communications) · ro corespondență (postal or other written communications) · ca correspondència (set theory) · be адпаве́днасць (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ja 通信 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · fi kirjeenvaihto (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · sv brevväxling (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · tl palihaman (postal or other written communications) · hi लिखापढ़ी (postal or other written communications) · fi lehdet (newspaper or news stories generally) · tr haberleşme (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · nl briefwisseling (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ko 문통 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · de Schriftverkehr (postal or other written communications) · bg кореспонде́нция (newspaper or news stories generally) · bg съотве́тствие (set theory) · es correspondencia (postal or other written communications) · el αλληλογραφία (postal or other written communications) · sv korrespondens (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · he התכתבות (postal or other written communications) · cy cyfatebiaeth (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · it carteggio (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ru бесе́да (friendly discussion) · ka კორესპონდენცია (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · fr correspondance (postal or other written communications) · ka მიმოწერა (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ro concordanță (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · cmn 通信 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · hi चिट्ठी-पत्री (postal or other written communications) · bg пре́писка (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · cmn 通訊 /通讯 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · pdt Breefwakjsel (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · fr correspondance (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · tl filipino (friendly discussion) · pt notícias (newspaper or news stories generally) · nb korrespondanse (set theory) · hi ख़त-किताबत (postal or other written communications) · pl odpowiedniość (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · ar مُرَاسَلَة (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · pt correspondência (postal or other written communications) · da brevveksling (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · nn korrespondanse (set theory) · ro corespondență (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · nl correspondentie (postal or other written communications) · ro corespondență (newspaper or news stories generally) · ru корреспонде́нция (newspaper or news stories generally) · hi पत्र-व्यवहार (postal or other written communications) · ka შესაბამისობა (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · fi yhteydenpito (postal or other written communications) · hi पत्राचार (postal or other written communications) · nl correspondentie (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ru соотве́тствие (agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome) · bg бесе́да (friendly discussion) · it corrispondenza (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters) · ja 文通 (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters)