comrade
noun/ˈkɒmreɪd/
/ˈkɑːmræd/
- a person who is a member of the same communist or socialist political party as the person speaking
- We must fight for our rights, comrades!
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- (also comrade-in-arms)(old-fashioned) a friend or other person that you work with, especially as soldiers during a war
- They were old army comrades.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally also camerade): from French camerade, camarade (originally feminine), from Spanish camarada ‘room-mate’, from Latin camera ‘chamber’. Compare with chum.
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