Other forms: correspondents
A correspondent is the reporter stationed far away, telling the news from there. A foreign correspondent, our Rome correspondent, a war correspondent.
Being based there is the point — a correspondent lives in the place and knows it, where a parachuted reporter arrives for the crisis. The older sense is somebody you exchange letters with. The Latin means answering together.
1nouncorrespondentA reporter based in a distant place.
“Our correspondent in Tokyo sends a report for the evening news every day.”
2nounexchangeSomebody you exchange letters with.
“My grandmother kept every letter from her correspondent in Australia, tied up with ribbon.”
correspondent is a reporter.
Medieval Latin correspondens comes from correspondere, to answer together — cor-, together, plus respondere, to answer.
Medieval Latin
correspondēns
English, today
correspondent
From Latin -, via Middle French - or directly, from Medieval Latin correspondēns, present participle of correspondeō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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