comrade

noun com·rade \ ˈkäm-ˌrad , -rəd , especially British -ˌrād \

|Updated on: 18 Jun 2018

Examples: comrade in a Sentence

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Definition of comrade

1 a : an intimate friend or associate : companion

" … reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned … "
—Daniel Defoe

b : a fellow soldier

comrades in battle

[from its use as a form of address by communists]

: communist

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comradeliness

play \ˈkäm-ˌrad-lē-nəs\ noun

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comradely

adjective

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comradeship

play \ˈkäm-ˌrad-ˌship\ noun

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Examples of comrade in a Sentence

He enjoys spending time with his old army comrades.
the boy, and two others who are known to be his comrades, are wanted for questioning by the police

Recent Examples of comrade from the Web

And now, the day when Christian met her father’s fellow soldiers for the first time has been captured in stunning images that speak to the bond soldiers share between themselves and the families of their comrades.

— jason duaine hahn, PEOPLE.com, "Baby Born After Father Was Killed in Action Poses for Family Photo with Soldiers from Dad's Unit," 1 June 2018
The show underlined this again with last week’s flashback to Elizabeth abandoning a comrade in Moscow and being chastised for it by her trainer.

— todd vanderwerff, Vox, "The Americans seeks a new “START” in a tremendous series finale," 31 May 2018
Jurek’s pages are haunted by comrades who didn’t make it through the fire unscathed.

— paul bisceglio, The Atlantic, "The Wisdom of Running a 2,189-Mile Marathon," 13 May 2018
Less than two months later, Bruce Leising leaped up to help a wounded comrade and was shot to death in the jungles of Vietnam.

— meg jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Wauwatosa students create memorials to service members killed in Vietnam," 11 May 2018
Also, the troopers got preferential treatment from their comrades.

— maria panaritis, Philly.com, "Pa. State Police shooting case looks ugly under grand jury spotlight | Maria Panaritis," 20 Jan. 2018
Forget that namby-pamby consensus-building crap that comrade Obama trafficked in; this is how Real Men do diplomacy.

— jonah shepp, Daily Intelligencer, "Trump’s Credibility Problem Is Now America’s," 26 May 2018
The loss of friends, of comrades, of community, was gut-wrenching.

— ta-nehisi coates, The Atlantic, "I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye," 7 May 2018
Arizona educators no doubt have been emboldened by the victories of their comrades across the country.

— jason l. riley, WSJ, "Teachers on Strike," 24 Apr. 2018

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Did You Know?

In Latin, camara or camera denoted a vaulted ceiling or roof. Later, the word simply mean “room, chamber” and was inherited by many European languages with that meaning. In the Spanish, the word became cámara, and a derivative of that was camarada “a group of soldiers quartered in a room” and hence “fellow soldier, companion.” That Spanish word was borrowed into French as camarade and then into Elizabethan English as both camerade and comerade.

Origin and Etymology of comrade

Middle French camarade group sleeping in one room, roommate, companion, from Old Spanish camarada, from cámara room, from Late Latin camera, camara — more at chamber

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First Known Use: 1544

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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