Comrade Meaning
/ˈkɒmɹeɪd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA mate, companion, or associate.
nounA mate, companion, or associate., A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
Sentence Examples
Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!
You have a good plan, Comrade Zhukov.
CEFR Practice Quiz
My old ____ from the army visited me last weekend.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He greeted his old ____ with a warm handshake after many years.
Word Origin & History
From earlier cumrade, camrade, comerade, camerade, camarade, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata (“chamber mate”), from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“vaulted room, chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie and chamberlain.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[… these tears] Which weep the comrade of my choice,
An awful thought, a life removed,
The human-hearted man I loved,
A spirit, not a breathing voice."
— 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:
"Wierzbowski and his men were so exhausted that they could hardly stay awake, but they knew they could not abandon their wounded comrades."
— 2019, Antony Beevor, chapter 16, in Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Penguin Books, page 194:
"Many comrades like Chang Te-fa, deputy secretary of the Party committee of Hsialuho commune of K'uantien county, precisely see the hope of the revolutionary cause in the youths."
— 1976, Survey of People's Republic of China Press, numbers 6086–6105, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 187:
"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."
— 1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
My old ____ from the army visited me last weekend.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He greeted his old ____ with a warm handshake after many years.