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correspondence

UK/ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns//ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/

correspondence noun: friendly discussion.

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.
  7. (countable) A relation.
  8. A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

correspondence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

correspondence in Hindi

postal or other written communications
पत्र-व्यवहार patra-vyavhār, पत्राचार patrācār, चिट्ठी-पत्री ciṭṭhī-patrī, ख़त-किताबत xat-kitābat, लिखापढ़ी likhāpaṛhī

correspondence in Tamil

கடிதத் தொடர்பு, நட்புத் தொடர்பு, இயைபு, ஒத்தல், ஒப்பு, ஒப்புடைப்பகுதி

correspondence in Marathi

पत्रव्यवहार, पत्रव्यवहाराच्या

correspondence in Urdu

خط کتابت, مراسلت, مشابہت
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correspondence in Bengali
পারস্পরিক যোগাযোগ, আলোচনা, বিভিন্ন জিনিস, মানুষ ইত্যাদির মধ্যে সাদৃশ্য
correspondence in Telugu
కరస్పాండెన్స్, కరస్పాండేషన్
correspondence in Malayalam
യോജിപ്പ്, എഴുത്തുകുത്ത്, ചേർച്ച
correspondence in Kannada
ಹೊಂದಿಕೆ, ಒಪ್ಪಂದ, ಓಲೆ, ಪತ್ರ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ
correspondence in Punjabi
ਪੱਤਰ ਵਿਹਾਰ pattar vihār
correspondence in Gujarati
પત્રવ્યવહાર, પત્ર-વ્યવહાર
correspondence in Tagalog
filipino, pakikipagtalastasan, palihaman
correspondence in Arabic
مُرَاسَلَة murāsala

Examples of correspondence in a sentence

  • The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.
  • The mayoral seal was applied to all official correspondence of the mayor.
  • Intermembral homology is the correspondence of the limbs with each other.

All 40 example sentences with correspondence

Synonyms of correspondence

Forms of correspondence

pluralcorrespondences

Plural of correspondence: correspondences

Origin of correspondence

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

Words formed from correspondence

Phrases with correspondence

Questions about correspondence

What does correspondence mean?
Correspondence means friendly discussion.
What is correspondence in Hindi?
Correspondence in Hindi is पत्र-व्यवहार (patra-vyavhār), पत्राचार (patrācār), चिट्ठी-पत्री (ciṭṭhī-patrī). See Correspondence meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is correspondence?
Correspondence is a noun.
How do you pronounce correspondence?
Correspondence is pronounced /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/ (UK).
What is the plural of correspondence?
The plural of correspondence is correspondences.

Words near correspondence in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: correspondence (page history and authors); correspondence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); correspondence (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); correspondence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); correspondence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); correspondence (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); correspondence (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); correspondence (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪੱਤਰ ਵਿਹਾਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); correspondence (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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