Comrade
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a friend who is frequently in the company of another wordnet
- 5 A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person. broadly
"Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?"
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- 6 a fellow member of the Communist Party wordnet
- 7 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."
- 1 To associate with someone in a friendly way. intransitive
"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."
Example
More examples"I guess Ichiko is a fellow rule-breaker, she's sending me a smile filled with affection for a comrade."
Etymology
From late Middle English ^((please verify)) comered, 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.
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