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: co--re-spon-dent. The stress falls on "re".

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.

Is co-respondent a common word?

co-respondent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.