different between comrade vs lawyer

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

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier