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Co-respondent

Definition: Co-respondent

Co-respondent

Noun

1. The codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding co-sign.

Verb

1. Sign jointly; "Husband and wife co-signed the lease".

2. Sign and endorse (another person's signature),.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "co-respondent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Synonyms: Co-respondent

Synonyms: corespondent (n), cosign (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Co-respondent

English words defined with "co-respondent": co-ordinate. (references)

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Modern Usage: Co-respondent

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Co-respondent (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Co-respondent

"Co-respondent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Co-respondent" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Co-respondent

Language Translations for "co-respondent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

ответник при бракоразводно дело, прелюбодеец (adulterer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

medeplichtige bij overspel. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

aviorikoksen osapuoli. (various references)

   

French

  

complice d'adultère. (various references)

   

German

  

scheidungsgrund, mitbeklagte (codefendant), dritte (third). (various references)

   

Italian

  

complice in adulterio. (various references)

   

Manx

  

coreggyragh (homologous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o-respondentcay

   

Portuguese

  

co-demandado, cúmplice de adultério. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

medskyldig till äktenskapsbrott. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zina davasına çıkan sevgili (corespondent), eşin zina yaptığı kimse (corespondent). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

співвідповідач. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Co-respondent

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

chorreos. (various references)

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Rhyming with "Co-respondent"

Words rhyming with "co-respondent" (pronounced 'Co`-re*spond"ent'): Advertent, Ament, Assument, Clement, Client, Coexistent, Coherent, Concludent, Connivent, Consistent, Contendent, Covent, Figent, inadvertent, inclement, incoherent, inconsistent, inherent, insistent, interdependent, Multipresent, Nonexistent, Obtundent, Occludent, Omnipresent, parent, Pendent, persistent, Postexistent, Preexistent, Propendent, Provent, Rament, Reflectent, Resorbent, Retrocedent, Revertent, Scient, Self-dependent, Self-existent, Semiadherent, semitransparent, sorbent, Strepent, Subsistent, talent, transcendent, transparent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Co-respondent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: corespondent.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: contenders, respondent.

-3 letters: condenser, condoners, consented, consenter, consorted, contender, copestone, copresent, cornpones, creodonts, creosoted, cretonnes, deponents, endoscope, endospore, nondesert, prosected, rotenones, stonecrop, torpedoes.

-4 letters: censored, centners, centones, condense, condoner, condones, condores, conenose, connoted, connotes, contends, coopered, cornpone, coronets, corseted, creodont, creosote, cretonne, deponent, doorstep, dopester, ecotones, encoders, endnotes, enrooted, enterons, escorted, necrosed, notornes.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: corespondents, correspondent.

 

+2 letters: correspondents.

 

+5 letters: nonproductiveness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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