Word Meanings - CORRESPONDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part

Additional info about word: CORRESPONDENCE

1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macualay. 2. The letters which pass between correspondents. 3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORRESPONDENCE)

• Coincidence
• Chance
• fortuity
• casualty
• concurrence
• correspondence
• contemporaneousness
• commensurateness
• harmony
• agreement
• consent
• Intercourse
• Correspondence
• dealing
• intercommunication
• intimacy
• connection
• commerce
• Likeness
• Similarity
• resemblance
• similitude
• parity
• copy
• imitation
• portrait
• representation
• image
• effigy
• carte de visite
• picture

Related words: (words related to CORRESPONDENCE)

• CARTEL
  An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• INTIMACY
  The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship. Syn. -- Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See Acquaintance.
• EFFIGY
  The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• CARTE DE VISITE
  1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• DEAL
  The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• SIMILITUDE
  1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of
• COINCIDENCE
  1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact
• CARTESIAN
  Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates , distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing
• CARTER
  1. A charioteer. Chaucer. 2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. A British fish; the whiff.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• FISSIPARITY
  Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• DISCONSENT
  To differ; to disagree; to dissent. Milton.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.