correspondence
NounUS[kaw-ruh-spon-duhns]/ˌkɔrəˈspɑndəns/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (5)
- communication by the exchange of lettersType of written communication, first classKinds cardParts letter, missive
- compatibility of observations“there was no agreement between theory and measurement”“the results of two tests were in correspondence”Synonyms: agreementType of compatibilityKinds conformity, conformance
- the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amountSynonyms: commensuratenessproportionatenessType of proportionality
- (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or planeSynonyms: symmetrysymmetricalnessbalanceType of spatial property, spatialityKinds regularity, bilaterality, radial symmetry
- similarity by virtue of correspondingSynonyms: parallelismType of similarity
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Translations
Noun reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters
- Spanish
- correspondencia
- French
- correspondance
- German
- Korrespondenz
- Italian
- corrispondenza
- Portuguese
- correspondência
- Russian
- перепи́ска perepíska
- Arabic
- مُرَاسَلَة murāsala
- Japanese
- 文通 buntsū
- Dutch
- correspondentie
- Polish
- korespondencja
10 more languages
- Swedish
- korrespondens
- Greek
- αλληλογραφία allilografía
- Portuguese (PT)
- correspondência
- Catalan
- correspondència
- Esperanto
- korespondaĵo
- Finnish
- kirjeenvaihto
- Georgian
- კორესპონდენცია ḳoresṗondencia
- Norwegian
- korrespondanse
- Romanian
- corespondență
- Welsh
- gohebiaeth
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cor′re·spond′ence (-sp?nd′ens), noun
Origin: Cf. F. correspondance.
1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. The letters which pass between correspondents.
3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54