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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.

comrade (plural comrades)

  1. A mate, companion, or associate.
  2. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.

    • 2019, Antony Beevor, chapter 16, in Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Penguin Books, page 194:

      Wierzbowski and his men were so exhausted that they could hardly stay awake, but they knew they could not abandon their wounded comrades.

  4. (communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

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

  5. (communism) 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.

mate, companion, or associate

companion in battle, fellow soldier

title used in leftist circles

Translations to be checked

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

  1. (intransitive) To associate with someone in a friendly way.

    • 1916, 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.