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".