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a
: an intimate friend or associate : companion
"… reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned …"—
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b
: a fellow soldier
comrades in battle
2
[from its use as a form of address by communists]
: communist
com·rade·li·ness
ˈkäm-ˌrad-lē-nəs 
-rəd-,
especially British -ˌrād-
plural -es
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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.
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Noun (1)
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
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Paul Callahan, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2026
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The comrades put up their Platner signs.
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Noun
Against a solid wall of shot and cannon fire, the Marylanders pressed forward, closing their ranks as their comrades dropped.
—Paul Callahan, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2026
Amjad Yousef had appeared in a video leaked four years ago that purportedly showed him and his comrades fatally shooting dozens of people during the country’s civil war.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
The comrades put up their Platner signs.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
Sukhmati described how her comrades would raid police stations to steal weapons.
—Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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