correspondentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dənt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dənt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dənt/
• (Indic) IPA: /kərəsˈpɔɳɖəɳʈ/

形容詞

correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.

   • 1577, “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, translation of original by Eusebius Pamphilus, page 225:

     [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.

   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:

     […] and he exhibited a picture of mental stupor and abstraction, dreadful for Oriana to contemplate! producing in her, as from magnetic attraction, correspondent emotions, which with the utmost difficulty she restrained.

2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

名詞

correspondent (plural correspondents)

1. Something which corresponds with something else; counterpart.
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 442:

     Both kála and kalánka have widespread correspondents in the western Mediterranean Romance languages.

2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

下位語

• stringer

派生語

参考

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

参照

• “correspondent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.