corespondent

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsco-respondent

   Broadercodefendant

Other forms of corespondent

plural

corespondents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corespondent

What does corespondent mean?

corespondent means "the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding".

How many syllables are in corespondent?

corespondent has 4 syllables: co-re-spon-dent. The stress falls on "spon". In IPA it is /ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndənt/.

What is another word for corespondent?

Close synonyms include co-respondent. 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 corespondent a common word?

corespondent 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.

What rhymes with corespondent?

3 words rhyme with corespondent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.