"tapespondent" meaning in English

See tapespondent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tapespondents [plural]
Etymology: Blend of tape + correspondent Etymology templates: {{blend|en|tape|correspondent}} Blend of tape + correspondent Head templates: {{en-noun}} tapespondent (plural tapespondents)
  1. (dated) A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post. Tags: dated Synonyms: voicespondent Related terms: tapespondence, tapesponding
    Sense id: en-tapespondent-en-noun-wqosT3DL Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tape",
        "3": "correspondent"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of tape + correspondent",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of tape + correspondent",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tapespondents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tapespondent (plural tapespondents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Ken Peters, Modern tape recording and hi-fi:",
          "text": "The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, High Fidelity, volume 19, numbers 7-12:",
          "text": "So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tom Sherman, Peggy Gale, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment:",
          "text": "I remember a few particularly valued tapespondents: Don from Riverside, California; Louis from Miami, Florida […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post."
      ],
      "id": "en-tapespondent-en-noun-wqosT3DL",
      "links": [
        [
          "penfriend",
          "penfriend"
        ],
        [
          "audio",
          "audio"
        ],
        [
          "tape",
          "tape"
        ],
        [
          "recording",
          "recording"
        ],
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "tapespondence"
        },
        {
          "word": "tapesponding"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "voicespondent"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tapespondent"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tape",
        "3": "correspondent"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of tape + correspondent",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of tape + correspondent",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tapespondents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tapespondent (plural tapespondents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tapespondence"
    },
    {
      "word": "tapesponding"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Ken Peters, Modern tape recording and hi-fi:",
          "text": "The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, High Fidelity, volume 19, numbers 7-12:",
          "text": "So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tom Sherman, Peggy Gale, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment:",
          "text": "I remember a few particularly valued tapespondents: Don from Riverside, California; Louis from Miami, Florida […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penfriend",
          "penfriend"
        ],
        [
          "audio",
          "audio"
        ],
        [
          "tape",
          "tape"
        ],
        [
          "recording",
          "recording"
        ],
        [
          "post",
          "post"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "voicespondent"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tapespondent"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tapespondent meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.