COMRADE | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of comrade in English comradenoun [ C ] uk /ˈkɒm.reɪd/ us /ˈkɑːm.ræd/

comrade noun [C] (FRIEND)

Add to word list Add to word list old-fashioned (UK comrade-in-arms) a friend, especially one who you have been involved in difficult or dangerous, usually military, activities with: Many of his comrades were killed in the battle. Soldiers & people who fight in wars

• anti-guerrilla
• Anzac
• berserker
• cannon fodder
• capability
• cavalryman
• citizen soldier
• ex-serviceman
• foot soldier
• grenadier
• paramilitary
• raider
• recruit
• scout
• sepoy
• shogun
• skirmisher
• soldier of fortune
• Unknown Soldier
• unsoldierly

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Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries

comrade noun [C] (POLITICAL MEMBER)

a member of the same political group, especially a communist or socialist group or a trade union: I know my opinion is shared by many of my comrades in the Labour movement. [ as form of address ] Welcome to the conference, comrades. Organizations - position & status

• a rung on/of the ladder idiom
• ambassador
• anti-elite
• anti-elitist
• apparatchik
• back seat
• brethren
• brother
• fish
• high-ranking
• pretender
• rung
• seat
• semi-official
• semi-officially
• ship
• spokeswoman
• subordinate
• superior
• superiority

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comradely (Definition of comrade from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

comrade | American Dictionary

comradenoun [ C ] us /ˈkɑm·ræd/ Add to word list Add to word list a friend or trusted companion, esp. one with whom you have been involved in difficult or dangerous activities, or another soldier in a soldier’s group: After 20 years he reunited with comrades from his army unit. (Definition of comrade from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of comrade

comrade Only one or two indicated that they were conscious of this difference as a source of inequality with male comrades. From the Cambridge English Corpus The interviews with the young comrades who explain their actions and motivations, including the persecution of informants, is especially effective. From the Cambridge English Corpus Her comrades pressed her to go, but she was already distancing herself from them and decided to stay behind. From the Cambridge English Corpus Ulysses led his comrades to a sea which no human being was permitted to enter. From the Cambridge English Corpus After all, did comrades need more than a handshake to seal an undertaking ? From the Cambridge English Corpus Only when the libidinal ties are weakened do soldiers act in panic, ignoring their comrades. From the Cambridge English Corpus The comrades came and urged me to go back. From the Cambridge English Corpus From 1974 onwards, at women's insistence, all young women refugees who were unmarried and childless received the same military training as their male comrades. From the Cambridge English Corpus They could be relics of either kin-group ancestors or comrades fallen in battle. From the Cambridge English Corpus They often struggled in vain to get their male comrades' support for more controversial women's issues such as birth control. From the Cambridge English Corpus The comrades are interchangeably bound to each other for and in our acclaim. From the Cambridge English Corpus Even there, however, workers threatened to join their comrades in the spreading nationwide labour protest. From the Cambridge English Corpus Many who had escaped smallpox because of their isolation in the country, now contracted it from their new-found comrades. From the Cambridge English Corpus I saw enemy tanks rolling over my dead or wounded comrades. From the Cambridge English Corpus Her aim was to avenge the brutal treatment of comrades in police custody. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of comrade These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of comrade?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 朋友, （尤指共患難過的）朋友，同志, （通常指）戰友… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 朋友, （尤指共患难过的）朋友，同志, （通常指）战友… See more in Spanish compañero, compañera, camarada… See more in Portuguese companheiro, companheira, camarada… See more in Turkish in French in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian silah arkadaşı, kader arkadaşı, (sosyalist parti veya sendika üyesi) yoldaş… See more camarade… See more kameraad… See more kamarád, druh… See more fælle, kammerat… See more kawan… See more เพื่อนสนิท… See more đồng chí… See more towarzysz/ka, towarzysz… See more kamrat… See more rakan… See more der Kamerad… See more kamerat… See more товариш… See more Need a translator?

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