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Comrades

[kom-rad, -rid]

noun

a person who shares in one's activities, occupation, etc.; companion, associate, or friend.

a fellow member of a fraternal group, political party, etc.

a member of the Communist party or someone with strongly leftist views.

Origin:
1585–95; < Middle French camarade < Spanish camarada group of soldiers billeted together, equivalent to cámar(a) room (< Latin; see camera) + -ada < Latin -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

com·rade·ship, noun

pre·com·rade·ship, noun

Synonyms
1. crony, fellow, mate.

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Three of their comrades were saved through the heroism of other firemen who were outside.

Walter and his comrades had to dodge grenades that the enemy rolled down the slope into their midst.

In the same army, if a child fails to raise the alarm when a friend escapes, he is executed by his comrades.

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Three of their comrades were saved through the heroism of other firemen who were outside.

Walter and his comrades had to dodge grenades that the enemy rolled down the slope into their midst.

In the same army, if a child fails to raise the alarm when a friend escapes, he is executed by his comrades.

The occasion was grim: a funeral for the comrades who'd been killed in the government ambush three weeks earlier.

Stand strong comrades for no man, no matter how powerful can ever shake your beliefs if you make those beliefs apart of you.

Bees wiggle around to tell their comrades the location of food supplies.

Working with the police, he visits his former comrades in jail in an effort to persuade them to cooperate and to mend their ways.

Dragons wounded in battle with their comrades appear to be unaffected by these otherwise deadly bacteria.

The advantage of this is that he does not need to put his gun down to rescue his comrades.

His comrades congratulated him as if he'd won the lottery.

It's more information than any soldiers have ever had about their comrades and their surroundings.

He has been branded a traitor by his former comrades.

Search for old comrades and post tales and thoughts about that fateful day and its aftermath.

Here's a look at the birthday boy's comrades in computer.

Hundreds have joined the army instead, and are now hunting their former comrades.

There was no sign of the search party he had hoped his comrades might have sent by now.

Your comrades in arms are a mix of computer-controlled characters and real-life players from around the.

Four or five of his comrades run the litter to the helicopter and clumsily, frantically, shove him inside.

Emerge victorious, and your comrades hail you as a hero.

Sometimes, police and other first responders were out of touch with comrades a few blocks away.

Some are urging their comrades not to fall into what they consider a regime plot to spur a violent pretext for another crackdown.

Your three computer-controlled comrades are fairly smart as well, although they do occasionally make dumb moves.

Some confessed that they didn't see the ships themselves, but heard reliable accounts from trustworthy comrades.

At the same time, friends and comrades were stalking more ethereal treatments.

In previous conflicts, you kept your comrades in sight.

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Word Origin & History

comrade

1590s, from M.Fr. camarade, from Sp. camarada "chamber mate," originally "chamberful," from L. camera (see camera). In Sp., a collective noun referring to one's company. In 17c., sometimes jocularly misspelled comrogue. Related: comradely (1880).

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"We now talk of our killed and wounded. There is however a very happy feeling. Those who escape regret of course the loss of comrades and friends, but their own escape and safety to some extent modifies their feelings."

-Rutherford Birchard Hayes

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