comrade

nounverbcommon in dialogue

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/[ˈkʰɔmɹed]/

A mate, companion, or associate.

noun

1
A mate, companion, or associate.
[… these tears] Which weep the comrade of my choice, ⁠An awful thought, a life removed, ⁠The human-hearted man I loved, A spirit, not a breathing voice.
2
A mate, companion, or associate. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
Wierzbowski and his men were so exhausted that they could hardly stay awake, but they knew they could not abandon their wounded comrades.
3
A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.
Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?
Many comrades like Chang Te-fa, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Hsialuho commune of K'uantien county, precisely see the hope of the revolutionary cause in the youths.
"How is it, comrades?" the admiral shouted through a bullhorn at each ship. "Rah, rah, rah!" the sailors shouted back in unison.
4
A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or rarely in an Islamist state.
Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.

Etymology

From earlier cumrade, camrade, comerade, camerade, camarade, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata (“chamber mate”), from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“vaulted room, chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie and chamberlain.

verb

1
To associate with someone in a friendly way.
But she was happy, for she was far away under another sky, and comrading again with her Rangers, and her animal friends, and the soldiers.

Forms

plural: comrades
past tense: comraded
past participle: comraded
present participle: comrading
third person singular: comrades

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comrade · A mate, companion, or associate.

con · A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with…Con · A male given name, a diminutive form of Conor, Conrad or…Conan · A male given name from Irish.

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