different between comrade vs confederate

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

Related terms

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

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d??e?t/

Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

Translations

Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

Quotations

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

Translations

Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. feminine plural of confederato

Noun

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. feminine plural of confederato