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Correspondent

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay.

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

3. One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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