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COMRADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
Example:
Greetings, comrade!
Synonyms:
brother; comrade
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("comrade" is a kind of...):
friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A friend who is frequently in the company of another
Example:
comrades in arms
Synonyms:
associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("comrade" is a kind of...):
friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comrade"):
date; escort (a participant in a date)
playfellow; playmate (a companion at play)
tovarich; tovarisch (a comrade (especially in Russian communism))
Derivation:
comradely (heartily friendly and congenial)
comradeship (the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A fellow member of the Communist Party
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Comrade" is a kind of...):
commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)
Context examples:
He shook hands with Holmes and introduced his comrade as Inspector Baynes, of the Surrey Constabulary.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The one was our comrade, Professor Challenger.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Meat is scarce," answered his comrade.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He called his comrades to witness the sight.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
So we all did: Traddles evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr. Micawber and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were beginning to make merry over their comrade's absence.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more—never more see birds making nests and singing idyls in your boughs; the time of pleasure and love is over with you: but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathise with him in his decay.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
That in some fields of his country there are certain shining stones of several colours, whereof the Yahoos are violently fond: and when part of these stones is fixed in the earth, as it sometimes happens, they will dig with their claws for whole days to get them out; then carry them away, and hide them by heaps in their kennels; but still looking round with great caution, for fear their comrades should find out their treasure.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“How does that shot please you, comrade?” asked the tailor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
