correspondence

Universal Words noun 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.