Noun: comrade
| Singular | comrade |
| Plural | comrades |
Sample Sentences
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[… these tears] Which weep the comrade of my choice,
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An awful thought, a life removed,
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The human-hearted man I loved,
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A spirit, not a breathing voice. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:]
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Wierzbowski and his men were so exhausted that they could hardly stay awake, but they knew they could not abandon their wounded comrades. [2019, Antony Beevor, chapter 16, in Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Penguin Books, page 194:]
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Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?
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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:]
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"How is it, comrades?" the admiral shouted through a bullhorn at each ship. "Rah, rah, rah!" the sailors shouted back in unison. [1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 604:]
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Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.
Nouns inflected like comrade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Spanish Nouns '
camarada', Italian Nouns '
camerata', Latin Nouns '
camara'.