What does correspondent mean?
Word: Correspondent
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Correspondent means a person who sends news reports from a particular place or about a particular subject, for a newspaper, radio or television. It can also mean a person who writes letters to someone.
Synonyms: journalist
How do you spell correspondent?
Syllables: cor - re - spond - ent
Tricky part: The ending is ent, not ant. The two sound the same, so correspondant is a common slip.
Watch out for: correspondant, correspondint
Memory tip: A correspondent sends the news, and sent ends in ent, the same as correspondent.
Correspondent in a sentence
Example 1: The sports correspondent sent a report from the stadium in Chennai.
Example 2: Our newspaper has a correspondent in every district of Assam.
Example 3: My grandmother and her pen friend in Japan have been correspondents for forty years.
Fun Fact
A foreign correspondent lives in another country and sends news home from there. Large newspapers and TV channels often keep correspondents in many world capitals.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
corr_sp_ndent
a) a,o
b) i,o
c) e,a
d) e,o
Show answer
d) e,o. Say cor-re-spond: the first gap has the e of re, and the second has the o of pond.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
correspondent
a) reader
b) reporter
c) printer
d) editor
Show answer
b) reporter. Both send in news from where things happen; an editor checks the stories, a reader reads them and a printer prints them.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) correspondent
b) newspapper
c) intervew
d) broadcastor
Show answer
a) correspondent. Broadcaster ends in er, newspaper has one p in the middle, and interview ends in iew.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
seonroenrcptd
a) correspondent
b) responsible
c) correctness
d) corresponding
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a) correspondent. Corresponding needs an i and a g, responsible a b, an i and an l, and correctness a second c and two s letters.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A science correspondent for a TV channel would most likely ____.
a) sell adverts to companies
b) explain new discoveries in the news
c) repair the studio lights
d) drive the channel van
Show answer
b) explain new discoveries in the news
2. An Indian newspaper correspondent based in London mainly ____.
a) prints the paper in Delhi
b) sends home news about Britain
c) sells copies at stations
d) designs the front page
Show answer
b) sends home news about Britain
