correspondent

Meanings

Adjective

• Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
• Conforming; obedient.

Noun

• Someone who or something which corresponds.
• Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
• A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• stringer

Origin

• From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.