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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•re•spond•ence /ˌkɔrəˈspɑndəns, ˌkɑr-/USA pronunciation n. - communication by exchange of letters:[uncountable]Our parents cut off all correspondence between us.
- a letter or letters that pass between correspondents: [countable]I have here a correspondence between you and the defendant.[uncountable]She kept all the correspondence between her and her lawyers in a safe-deposit box.
- agreement;
similarity;
conformity: [countable]There is a one-to-one correspondence between each sound and each written letter in Finnish, but not in Swedish.[uncountable]There is some correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning, or else we couldn't communicate.
See -spond-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•re•spond•ence (kôr′ə spon′dəns, kor′-),USA pronunciation n. - communication by exchange of letters.
- a letter or letters that pass between correspondents:It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.
- Also, correspondency. an instance of corresponding.
- similarity or analogy.
- agreement;
conformity. - news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
- Mathematicsfunction (def. 4a).
- Medieval Latin corrēspondentia. See correspondent, -ence
- Middle French)
- late Middle English (1375–1425
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged accord, concord, consonance.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: correspondence /ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns/ n - the act or condition of agreeing or corresponding
- similarity or analogy
- agreement or conformity
- communication by the exchange of letters
- the letters so exchanged
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