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correspondance

correspondance is the misspelling of correspondence.

Meaning of correspondence

Noun

correspondence (countable and uncountable, plural correspondences)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Friendly discussion.
  2. (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
  3. (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories.
  4. Postal or other written communications.
    • I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.1985 April 13, Michael Harmon, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14
  5. Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc
    • For, if praxis signifes the whole of man's part in history, the value of intellectual production as an aspect of that whole is to be measured by the mind's ability to 'express' changing historical situations, and not by the correspondence between some 'objective' universe and the description of it.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
  6. (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.

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Questions about correspondance

What is correspondance the misspelling of?
Correspondance is the misspelling of correspondence.

Words near correspondance in the dictionary

  1. correption
  2. correptions
  3. corres.
  4. corresp.
  5. correspond
  6. correspondance
  7. corresponded
  8. correspondence
  9. correspondence chess
  10. correspondence course
  11. correspondence courses

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