comrade
/ˈkɒmɹeɪd/
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Multicultural London English[ˈkʰɔmɹed]
comrade noun: a mate, companion, or associate.
Noun
comrade (plural comrades)
- 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20
- [… these tears] Which weep the comrade of my choice,
- A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.
- Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?
- Many comrades like Chang Te-fa, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Hsialuho commune of K'uantien county, precisely see the hope of the revolutionary cause in the youths.1976, Survey of People's Republic of China Press, numbers 6086–6105, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 187
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- compare sister, brother
Verb
comrade (third-person singular simple present comrades, present participle comrading, simple past and past participle comraded)
- To associate with someone in a friendly way.
- 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.1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
comrade meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
comrade in Hindi
- mate, companion, or associate
- रफ़ीक़ rafīq, साथी sāthī
- companion in battle, fellow soldier
- साथी sāthī
- fellow socialist or communist
- साथी sāthī, कामरेड kāmreḍ, रफ़ीक़ rafīq, कॉमरेड kŏmreḍ
- title used in leftist circles
- कामरेड kāmreḍ, साथी sāthī, रफ़ीक़ rafīq, कॉमरेड kŏmreḍ
comrade in Tamil
- fellow socialist or communist
- தோழர் tōḻar
- title used in leftist circles
- தோழர் tōḻar
comrade in Marathi
- कॉमरेड
comrade in Urdu
- mate, companion, or associate
- رَفِیق rafīq
- fellow socialist or communist
- ساتھی sāthī, کامْریڈ kāmreḍ
- title used in leftist circles
- کامْریڈ kāmreḍ
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- comrade in Bengali
- কমরেড komreḍ
- comrade in Telugu
- కామ్రేడ్
- comrade in Malayalam
- സഖാവ് sakhāvŭ
- comrade in Kannada
- ಗೆಳೆಯ, ಒಡನಾಡಿ
- comrade in Punjabi
- ਮਿੱਤਰ mittar
- comrade in Gujarati
- બિરાદર birādar
- comrade in Odia
- କମରେଡ୍, କମରେଡ
- comrade in Nepali
- कमरेड kamareḍ, साथी sāthī
- comrade in Pashto
- رفيق rafíq
- comrade in Tagalog
- kasama
- comrade in Arabic
- رَفِيق rafīq, رَفِيقَة rafīqa, صَدِيق ṣadīq, صَدِيقَة ṣadīqa
- comrade in Malay
- rakan seperjuangan, komrad, saudara or saudari, kamerad
- comrade in Indonesian
- kamerad
- comrade in Thai
- สหาย sà-hǎai
- comrade in Vietnamese
- đồng chí, bằng hữu
- comrade in Myanmar
- ရဲဘော် rai:bhau
Examples of comrade in a sentence
- At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreathed the grave of the honoured deceased.
- He turned away from his old comrades.
- The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
Synonyms of comrade
- compare sister
- brother
- battle buddy
- tovarish
- compagno
Forms of comrade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | comrades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | comrades |
| present participle | comrading |
| past participle | comraded |
| past | comraded |
Origin of comrade
From earlier cumrade, camrade, comerade, camerade, camarade, 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 and chamberlain.
Words formed from comrade
Questions about comrade
- What does comrade mean?
- Comrade means a mate, companion, or associate.
- What is comrade in Hindi?
- Comrade in Hindi is रफ़ीक़ (rafīq), साथी (sāthī), कामरेड (kāmreḍ). See Comrade meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is comrade?
- Comrade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce comrade?
- Comrade is pronounced /ˈkɒmɹeɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of comrade?
- The plural of comrade is comrades.
Words near comrade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comrade (page history and authors); comrade (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); comrade (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); comrade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮਿੱਤਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); બિરાદર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); comrade (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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