correspondent

1. 1.

   similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

   “brains and computers are often considered analogous”

   “salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar”

   Synonymsanalogous

   Similarsimilar

Other forms of correspondent

plural

correspondents·

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 correspondent

What does correspondent mean?

correspondent means "someone who communicates by means of letters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in correspondent?

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

What is another word for correspondent?

Close synonyms include letter writer, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman. 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 correspondent a common word?

correspondent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 correspondent?

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