comrade

• comrad

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmɹeɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɹæd/, /ˈkɑmɹəd/

comrade (plural comrades)

1. A mate, companion, or associate.
2. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
3. (communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

   Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?

4. (communism) A gender-neutral title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state.

   Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.

• see also Thesaurus:friend
• (title): compare sister, brother
• battle buddy
• tovarish

comrade (third-person singular simple present comrades, present participle comrading, simple past and past participle comraded)

1. (transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.
   • Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

     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.

• comrade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comrade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• DeMarco, Demarco, Mercado, caromed