different between comrade vs bedfellow

English

Alternative forms

• comrad

Etymology

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?e?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?æd/, /?k?m??d/

Noun

comrade (plural comrades)

1. A mate, companion, or associate.
2. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
3. (communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

4. (communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:friend
• (title): compare sister, brother
• battle buddy
• tovarish
• compagno

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Translations

Verb

comrade (third-person singular simple present comrades, present participle comrading, simple past and past participle comraded)

1. (transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.
   • 1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

     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.

Further reading

• comrade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comrade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• DeMarco, Demarco, Mercado, caromed, dome car

English

Etymology

From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed +? fellow.

Noun

bedfellow (plural bedfellows)

1. One with whom one shares a bed.

   Synonym: bedmate
2. (by extension) An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

Derived terms

• strange bedfellows

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