COMRADE

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• COMRADE (noun)
  The noun COMRADE has 3 senses:

1. a friend who is frequently in the company of another

2. a fellow member of the Communist Party

3. used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement

  Familiarity information: COMRADE used as a noun is uncommon.

• COMRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A friend who is frequently in the company of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow

Context example:

comrades in arms

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 2

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

brother; comrade

Context example:

Greetings, comrade!

Hypernyms ("comrade" is a kind of...):

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

 Context examples 

And now loaded with chains, he was standing at the window of his dungeon, when he chanced to see one of his comrades passing by.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They had never so much as looked at their fallen comrade, though he was not dead, and I could see him trying to crawl away.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

What use was it for me, a wretched cripple, to go back to England or to make myself known to my old comrades?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among our comrades of the Order, there was one who was the friend of my heart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were like good comrades, and we grew better comrades as the days went by.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were all the comrades left to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But, comrade, it is in my mind that there is some small matter of dispute still open between us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I gather from his dress, he continued, running his eye over me, that you have been more fortunate in prize-money than most of your comrades.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)