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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\ (-ent), a. [Cf. F.
correspondant.]
Suitable; adapted; fit corresponding; congruous;
conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
--Hooker.
As fast the correspondent passions rise. --Thomson.
I will be correspondent to command. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\, n.
1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
--Macaulay.
2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or
telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter
or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
correspondent
adj : similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise
dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered
analogous; "surimi is marketed as analogous to
crabmeat" [syn: {analogous}]
n 1: someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: {letter
writer}]
2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers
or broadcast media [syn: {newspaperman}, {newspaperwoman},
{newswriter}, {pressman}]
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