co-respondent

1. 1.

   the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding

   Synonymscorespondent

   Broadercodefendant

Questions about co-respondent

What does co-respondent mean?

co-respondent means "the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding".

How many syllables are in co-respondent?

co-respondent has 4 syllables and divides as co--re-spon-dent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for co-respondent?

Close synonyms include corespondent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.