comrade

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When he's not cobbling, he's reading,--when not reading, he's cobbling, or mending clocks, and watches, and, betwixt this and that, my comrade has picked up a power of information,--though he lost his leg a doing of it--in a gale of wind--off the Cape of Good Hope, for my comrade was a sailor, sir.

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  1. noun A person who shares one's interests or activities; a friend or companion.
  2. noun A fellow member of a group, especially a fellow member of the Communist Party.
  3. Word History
    A comrade can be socially or politically close, a closeness that is found at the etymological heart of the word comrade. In Spanish the Latin word camara, with its Late Latin meaning "chamber, room,” was retained, and the derivative camarada, with the sense "roommates, especially barrack mates,” was formed. Camarada then came to have the general sense "companion.” English borrowed the word from Spanish and French, English comrade being first recorded in the 16th century. The political sense of comrade, now associated with Communism, had its origin in the late-19th-century use of the word as a title by socialists and communists in order to avoid such forms of address as mister. This usage, which originated during the French Revolution, is first recorded in English in 1884.

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  • The other hunger striker, Prarameswaran Subramaniam, 28, has agreed to drink liquids while his comrade is away. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • He could tell from its motion, that it was descending the river Meanwhile Dan Davidson, under the impression that his comrade was also seeking safety in the bush, did his best to advance in circumstances of which he had never yet had experience, for, if the night was dark on the open bosom of the river, it presented the blackness of Erebus in the forest. —  The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
  • Another variety, somewhat smaller, but not less fair in appearance, and of a better flavor, my comrade was acquainted with, and said they were called the Double Paradise. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
  • He then inquired after our names, trade or profession, and place of residence in Fatherland, all of which we told him, namely, that my comrade was a theologian, and had studied at Leyden;[289] that I was a wine-racker, and that we both lived near Leeuwarden, in Friesland. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
  • He paused, and, seeing that his comrade was apparently being drowned, at once dropped sword and shield, and sprang into the sea after him At that moment a number of the King's boldest and best armed men observed that the two ships had drawn a little nearer to each other. —  Erling the Bold
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companion ·  ally ·  colleague ·  brother ·  follower ·  neighbors ·  lover ·  soldier ·  warrior ·  partner ·  cousin ·  associate

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French camarade, from Old French, roommate, from Old Spanish camarada, barracks company, roommate, from camara, room, from Late Latin camera; see chamber.

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  1. Early modern English comerade, camarade (also camarado, camrado, after Spanish Portuguese), from late Middle English comered = Middle Dutch camerade, Dutch kameraad = German kamerad, also kammerade, kammerad, camarad, = Danish kammerat = Swedish kamrat (with termination after Italian), from French camerade, now camarade, from Italian camerata = Spanish Portuguese camarada, a company, society, a partner, comrade, = French chambrée, a (military) mess, a house (audience); orig. a collective name for those lodging in the same chamber or tent, from Middle Latin *camarata, *camerata (sc. L. societa(t-)s, company), feminine of camaratus, cameratus, literally chambered, from Latin camara, camera (later Italian camera = Spanish cámara = Portuguese camara = French chambre, later English chamber), a chamber: see chamber, and cf. camerate.
 

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