correspondence

English

Etymology

From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/, /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns/

    • Audio (US):

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  • (New York City) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑn.dəns/

Noun

correspondence (countable and uncountable, plural correspondences)

1. Mutual communication or discourse:
   1. (uncountable, obsolete) Friendly discussion.
   3. (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
   4. (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories.
   5. (countable or uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
      • 1985 April 13, Michael Harmon, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

        I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.

2. Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
   1. (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
   2. (set theory, countable) A relation.
   3. (theology, Swedenborgianism) A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

Derived terms

• correspondence course
• correspondence principle
• Curry-Howard correspondence
• incorrespondence
• law of correspondence
• lexical correspondence
• noncorrespondence
• Robinson-Schensted correspondence
• tapespondence

 

Translations

friendly discussion

• Russian: бесе́да (ru) f (beséda)
• Tagalog: filipino, pakikipagtalastasan

reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially by letters

• Arabic: مُرَاسَلَة f (murāsala)
• Belarusian: перапíска f (pjerapíska), карэспандэ́нцыя f (karespandéncyja)
• Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija), пре́писка (bg) f (prépiska)
• Catalan: correspondència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通信 (zh) (tōngxìn), 通訊／通讯 (zh) (tōngxùn)

• Danish: brevveksling c, korrespondance c
• Dutch: briefwisseling (nl) f, correspondentie (nl) f
• Esperanto: korespondaĵo
• Finnish: kirjeenvaihto (by letters)
• French: correspondance (fr) f
• German: Briefwechsel (de) m, Korrespondenz (de) f
• Italian: corrispondenza (it), carteggio (it) m
• Japanese: 文通 (ja) (ぶんつう, buntsū), 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin)
• Korean: 통신 (ko) (tongsin), 문통 (muntong)
• Macedonian: преписка f (prepiska)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brevveksling m or f

• Plautdietsch: Breefwakjsel m
• Polish: korespondencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f
• Russian: перепи́ска (ru) f (perepíska), корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija)
• Spanish: correspondencia (es) f, carteo (es) m
• Swedish: brevväxling (sv) c, korrespondens (sv) c
• Turkish: yazışma (tr), haberleşme (tr)
• Ukrainian: листува́ння n (lystuvánnja), кореспонде́нція (uk) f (korespondéncija)
• Welsh: gohebiaeth f

agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome

• Belarusian: адпаве́днасць f (adpavjédnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (bg) n (sǎotvétstvie), съотноше́ние (bg) n (sǎotnošénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對應／对应 (zh) (duìyìng)

• Finnish: vastaavuus (fi)
• French: correspondance (fr) f
• Georgian: შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba)
• German: Korrespondenz (de) f
• Japanese: 対応 (ja) (たいおう, taiō)
• Korean: 대응 (ko) (daeeung)
• Polish: odpowiedniość (pl) f, zgodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f
• Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije), соотноше́ние (ru) n (sootnošénije)
• Ukrainian: відпові́дність f (vidpovídnistʹ)
• Welsh: cyfatebiaeth (cy) f

newspaper or news stories generally

• Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通訊／通讯 (zh) (tōngxùn)

• Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl
• French: chronique (fr) f, correspondance (fr) f
• German: Korrespondenz (de) f
• Greek: ανταπόκριση (el) f (antapókrisi)
• Italian: corrispondenza (it)
• Japanese: 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin)
• Polish: korespondencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: notícias (pt) f pl
• Russian: корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija)
• Spanish: noticias (es) f pl
• Turkish: haber (tr)

postal or other written communications

• Bulgarian: кореспонде́нция (bg) f (korespondéncija)
• Catalan: carteig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 書簡／书简 (zh) (shūjiǎn), 函件 (zh) (hánjiàn)

• Dutch: correspondentie (nl) f
• French: correspondance (fr) f
• German: Korrespondenz (de) f
• Greek: αλληλογραφία (el) f (allilografía)
• Hebrew: התכתבות f
• Japanese: 書簡 (ja) (しょかん, shokan)
• Kulere: huhu
• Norman: correspondance f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korrespondanse m

  Nynorsk: korrespondanse m

• Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f
• Russian: корреспонде́нция (ru) f (korrespondéncija), перепи́ска (ru) f (perepíska) (exchange)
• Spanish: correspondencia (es) f
• Tagalog: palihaman
• Turkish: mektuplaşma (tr)

set theory

• Bulgarian: съотве́тствие (bg) n (sǎotvétstvie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 对应关系

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korrespondanse m

  Nynorsk: korrespondanse m

• Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f
• Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije), соотноше́ние (ru) n (sootnošénije)

See also

• correspondent