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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
Alan Cranston

Meaning of "foreign correspondent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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Foreign correspondent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

foreign correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator for magazines, or more generally speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD and BBC.

Definition of foreign correspondent in the English dictionary

The definition of foreign correspondent in the dictionary is a reporter who visits or resides in a foreign country in order to report on its affairs.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

foreign affairs
foreign agent
foreign aid
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
foreign bill
foreign body
foreign currency
foreign currency income
foreign draft
foreign exchange
foreign exchange market
foreign exchange rate
foreign investment
foreign legion
foreign minister
foreign ministry
foreign mission
foreign national
foreign office
foreign policy

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

accident
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chief superintendent
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correspondent
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descendent
despondent
indent
independent
insulin-dependent
interdependent
pendent
pretendent
resplendent
respondent
scandent
school superintendent
special correspondent
superintendent
transcendent

Synonyms and antonyms of foreign correspondent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «foreign correspondent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Find out the translation of foreign correspondent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foreign correspondent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foreign correspondent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

外国记者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corresponsal en el extranjero
570 millions of speakers

English

foreign correspondent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विदेशी संवाददाता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مراسل أجنبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

иностранный корреспондент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

correspondente estrangeiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদেশী সংবাদদাতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

correspondant à l´étranger
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wartawan asing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Auslandskorrespondent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

外国特派員
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외국 특파원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wartawan asing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phóng viên nước ngoài
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெளிநாட்டு நிருபர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परराष्ट्र प्रतिनिधी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yabancı muhabir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corrispondente estero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

korespondent zagraniczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

іноземний кореспондент
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corespondent străin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξένου ανταποκριτή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buitelandse korrespondent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utrikeskorrespondent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utenrikskorrespondent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foreign correspondent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT»

The term «foreign correspondent» is regularly used and occupies the 80.060 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «foreign correspondent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «foreign correspondent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foreign correspondent

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5 QUOTES WITH «FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foreign correspondent.
1
Christiane Amanpour
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
2
Rick Atkinson
I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
3
Russell Baker
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
4
Alan Cranston
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
5
Robert D. Kaplan
The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT»

Discover the use of foreign correspondent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foreign correspondent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel
In 1939 Paris, the murder of an Italian political âemigrâe by OVRA, Mussolini's secret police, brings new danger to his successor, Carlo Weisz, who finds himself the target of OVRA, MI6, Stalin's NKVD, and Hitler's Gestapo.
Alan Furst, 2007
2
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under ...
Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Geraldine Brooks, 2011
3
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Shirer's Berlin Diary, which is considered the first full record of what was happening in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, first appeared in 1941. The book was an instant success.
William L. Shirer, 2011
4
Jan Wong's China: Reports From A Not-So-Foreign Correspondent
Employing humour and behind-the-scenes detail, Jan Wong brilliantly weaves her adventures into a rich journalistic tapestry. From the Hardcover edition.
Jan Wong, 2011
5
Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
She recounts her time in Cologne, Germany, studying during Hitler’s rise to power, and her adventures in Europe and the Arctic as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune.Spirited and compelling, Ahead of Time is a striking account of ...
Ruth Gruber, 2010
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Adventuring: My Life As a Pilot, Foreign Correspondent and ...
He has shot a dozen Travel-Adventure films, including the Story Book England, the Magic of Malaysia and the Echo of Hoofbeats-the Story of the Pony Express.
Hal Hays McClure, 2012
7
Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia
This Collection Marks The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding In 1958Of The Foreign Correspondents&Rsquo; Association Of South Asia (Fca)&Mdash;Renamed The Foreign Correspondents&Rsquo; Club (Fcc) In 1991.South Asia Is A Specially Favoured ...
John Elliott, Bernard Imhasly, Simon Denyer, 2008
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Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman ...
Told with a brilliance and dead-on honesty, this book vividly captures the triumphs of a determined and talented young report.
Georgie Anne Geyer, 2011
9
Foreign Correspondent
This short novel, written in evocative imagistic sections of short prose, follows Johnnie as she encounters philosophers, jaunty sports journalists, exotic lap birds, retired cage fighters, intrepid doppelganger gal-pals, Marxist sci-fi ...
Joanna Howard, 2013
10
Ching Chong China Girl: From fruitshop to foreign correspondent
Warning: Not to be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves. 'Ching Chong Chinaman' girls taunted Helene Chung in her Catholic school playground.
Helene Chung, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foreign correspondent is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The curious art of migrant spotting in Greece - ABC
The ABC's Foreign Correspondent program travelled to Kos, where several hundred migrants can arrive in one day alone. Europe ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Fear of Alzheimer's is everywhere, but it's spurring some to change …
She does word puzzles and keeps up the Spanish skills she honed in Latin America as a foreign correspondent. And she said that if she should ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
3
Author examines power of debate and dissent | The Pueblo Chieftain
What Shipler — a former New York Times foreign correspondent who won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his book “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in ... «Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 15»
4
Stocks to Watch in Consumer Staples: Altria Group Inc. (NYSE:MO …
This helps the company to avoid the inconstancy from its foreign correspondent Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM). Altria (NYSE:MO) is also ... «WallStreet.org, Jul 15»
5
Facebook Offers Consumers a Plethora of Up to the Minute News …
There are also foreign correspondent groups and foreign press association groups. When using Facebook, consumers have a plethora of up to ... «Guardian Liberty Voice, Jul 15»
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Lafcadio Hearn's timeless anthology of ghost tales | The Japan Times
... miniature the legend of Hearn himself, the man who came to Meiji Era (1868 to 1912) Japan as a foreign correspondent, but loved it so much ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
7
Darfur: An ongoing genocide | Herald Scotland
Last week Samantha Power, formerly a fine foreign correspondent based in Sudan who is now United States ambassador to the United Nations ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
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BosNewsLife – Christian News Agency » Blog Archive » Coptic …
(Martin Roth (www.authormartinroth.com) is an Australian journalist and a former Tokyo-based foreign correspondent. He is the author of ... «BosNewsLife, Jul 15»
9
Blundering into war | TribLIVE
Georgie Anne Geyer has been a foreign correspondent and commentator on international affairs for more than 40 years. «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
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Betsy Hiel: My meeting with Omar | TribLIVE
Betsy Hiel is the Tribune-Review's foreign correspondent. Email her at bhiel@tribweb.com . Subscribe today! Click here for our subscription ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»

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