1 [U] ~ (with sb) the letters a person sends and receives:
personal / private correspondence * The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject. * the correspondence column / page (= in a newspaper)
2 [U,C] ~ (with sb) the activity of writing letters:
I refused to enter into any correspondence (= to exchange letters) with him about it. * We have been in correspondence for months. * We kept up a correspondence for many years.
3 [C,U] ~ (between A and B) a connection between two things; the fact of two things being similar:
There is a close correspondence between the two extracts.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of correspondence come from?
This entry for correspondence is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is correspondence a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, correspondence is tagged as noun.
Does correspondence appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — correspondence appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
