Tovarish

//tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.

    "Instead of addressing them according to revolutionary etiquette as Tovarish (comrade), he asked them their Christian names and that of their fathers, while telling them his own."

Example

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"Instead of addressing them according to revolutionary etiquette as Tovarish (comrade), he asked them their Christian names and that of their fathers, while telling them his own."

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian това́рищ (továrišč).

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