Other forms: comrades
A comrade is a companion who shares your work or your cause. Old comrades, comrades in arms, comrade and friend.
It implies shared hardship rather than mere friendship, which is why it belongs to soldiers and to political movements. Its use as a form of address in communist parties has coloured the word permanently in English. Note that the Spanish behind it means chamber mate — comrades shared a room.
1nouncomradeA companion who shares your work or your cause.
“The old soldier never forgot the comrades he had fought beside.”
comrade is a companion.
Spanish camarada means a chamber mate, from Latin camera, a room. Comrades were those who shared a room.
Latin
camara
Medieval Latin
*camarata
Italian
camerata — chamber mate
Spanish
camarada
Middle French
camarade
English, today
comrade
Built from
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA