# comrade

Pronunciation: US say "KOM-rad" /ˈkɑmɹæd/; UK say "KOM-rayd" /ˈkɒmɹeɪd/

## Noun

1. A companion or associate, especially a fellow soldier or someone who shares difficult or dangerous experiences.
   - Simple: A friend or companion who shares your activities or hard times, especially a soldier who fought beside you.
   - _The two explorers had been comrades on three expeditions to the Arctic._
   - _In the theater company she found a comrade who shared her love of old films._
2. A fellow socialist, communist, or other person with the same political leanings.
   - Simple: A person who shares your socialist or communist political ideas.
   - _She broke with her former comrades over the party's support for the war._
   - _As a young activist, he treated every striker on the picket line as a comrade._
3. A title showing no rank, used before a name in a communist or socialist state, or rarely an Islamist one, much as Mr., Mrs., or Ms. is used elsewhere.
   - Simple: A title used before a name in communist or socialist countries, like Mr. or Mrs. but the same for everyone.
   - _The newspaper praised Comrade Novak for exceeding the harvest quota._
   - _Under the new rules, clerks addressed even the minister as Comrade Chen._

## Other meanings

- (verb) To keep friendly company with someone.

## Origin

Latin camara, camera ("vaulted room, chamber") gave Medieval Latin *camarata, which became Spanish camarada or Italian camerata ("chamber mate") and then Middle French camarade. Chamber and camaraderie are related words.

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