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comrade

noun
/ˈkɒmɹeɪd/UK/ˈkʰɔmɹed//ˈkɑmɹæd/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from camara
  2. derived from *camarata✻
  3. derived from camerata — “chamber mate”
  4. derived from camarada
  5. borrowed from camarade

Definitions

  1. A mate, companion, or associate.

    • [… 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.

  2. A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

    • Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?
    • 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.

  3. A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a…

    A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or rarely in an Islamist state.

    • Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To associate with someone in a friendly way.

      • 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.

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Derived

comrade in arms, comradeless, comradeliness, comradely, comradery, comradeship, comradess

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comrade. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comrade. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at comrade

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA