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compadre

compadre noun: a friend or companion.

Noun

compadre (plural compadres)

  1. A friend or companion.
    • Whenever he had a compadre or a friend, it was his bounden duty to do him some service.1839, J. P., W. P. Robertson, Letters from Paraguay, comprising an account of four years residence in that republic, under the dictator Francia, London: John Murray, page 339
    • He looks like a solid guy. Hiro leans into him. "Compadre, who is the guy with the antenna? A friend of yours?"1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 367

compadre meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

compadre in Tamil

நண்பன், துணைவன், கூட்டாளி, சேக்காளி

compadre in Malayalam

സ്നേഹിതൻ, സഹപ്രവർത്തകൻ

Forms of compadre

pluralcompadres

Origin of compadre

Borrowed from Spanish compadre (“joint father, godfather, friend”). Doublet of compeer, compere, and goombah.

Questions about compadre

What does compadre mean?
Compadre means a friend or companion.
What is compadre in Tamil?
Compadre in Tamil is நண்பன், துணைவன், கூட்டாளி. See Compadre meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is compadre?
Compadre is a noun.
What is the plural of compadre?
The plural of compadre is compadres.

Words near compadre in the dictionary

  1. compactor
  2. compactors
  3. compacts
  4. compactum
  5. compacture
  6. compadre
  7. compadres
  8. compage
  9. compages
  10. compaginate
  11. compaginated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compadre (page history and authors); compadre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compadre (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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