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"COMRADES" is a plural of: comrade. |
Date "COMRADES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Comrades (2 syl.). Those who sleep in the same bed-chamber. It is a Spanish military term derived from the custom of dividing soldiers into chambers. The proper spelling is camerades, men of the same camera (chamber). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: COMRADES |
| English words defined with "COMRADES": Good fellowship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COMRADES": Archers ♦ Billiards, BODY ♦ King ♦ Legs ♦ Selling the Pass. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He said that you didn't need comrades, but I'm attached to that word to the point of tears (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari) He and his comrades are discussing place settings now. (The Dirty Dozen; writing credit: E.M. Nathanson; Nunnally Johnson) Well, Comrades, what are we going to do? (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) A great day comrades, we sail into history! (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Three Comrades (1955) Colt Comrades (1943) Three Comrades (1938) Comrades (1928) The City of Comrades (1919) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 18, Bazoilles, France. : Johns Hopkins Unit, wounded soldier entertaining comrades. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Officers and soldiers on the battlefield of the second Bull Run, recognizing the remains of their comrades. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | One of our Filipino boys, injured in the fighting on Bataan, January 28, 1942, being brought back to a first aid station by his comrades. Longoskawayan Point, West Coast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Junior Red Cross Comrades all / / Karl E. Johnson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Spirit of comrade Norman Bethune's utter devotion to others without any thought of self is manifested in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his extreme warmheartedness towards his comrades and the people. Every party member should l. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrel Gromyko | Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth. |
Jonathan Swift | Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His comrades helped him as they always do in that dreary place, and he escaped. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | India | Militants in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states continued to use kidnapings to terrorize the population, seek the release of detained comrades, and extort funds. (references) |
Guatemala | Prosecutors had pursued inaccurate theories that Gutierrez was an active member of a guerrilla organization and either left voluntarily or was kidnaped by her guerrilla comrades. (references) | |
Guatemala | In their testimony, they implicated several former comrades and gave detailed accounts of the massacre, before leaving the country under witness protection from the Prosecutor's Office. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The best praise for this officer and his intrepid comrades is in the likeness of his triumph to the illustrious victory which immortalized another officer and established at a critical moment our command of another lake. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | Let me speak to the maimed and wounded soldiers who are present today, and through them convey to their comrades the gratitude of the Republic for their sacrifices in its defense. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We honor their contributions, including those who are carrying out the longest humanitarian airlift in history in Bosnia, those who will complete their mission in Somalia this year, and their brave comrades who gave their lives there. |
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| "COMRADES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.51% of the time. "COMRADES" is used about 442 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.51% | 431 | 13,316 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.49% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 442 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "COMRADES": comrades-in-arms. | |
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| Language | Translations for "COMRADES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | ε" (companions, friends). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Kameraden (buddies, pals). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | ikhwan (brotherly, brothers, fraternal). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | δ»²ι"ε士 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | γͺγγΎγ©γγ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | omradescay kamrater. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COMRADES": comradeship, comradeships. (additional references) | |
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"COMRADES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camarade, camarades, camrade, camrades, comadre, comarade, comerade, commrad, commrade, comrad, comrado, Comtrad, Conrads, Coriads, Cumbraes, Cunarder, cunarders, dolmades, Ecotrade, Kon-rads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COMRADES" (pronounced kÄ"mra'dz) |
| 4 | -r a' d z | tetrads. |
| 3 | -a' d z | doodads, keypads, nomads, triads. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: caromed, comrade, radomes. | |
-2 letters: adores, cadres, cameos, caroms, cedars, coarse, coders, comade, comers, creams, credos, decors, dermas, dreams, macers, macros, madres, oreads, radome, ramose, roamed, sacred, sarode, scared, scored, scream, soared. | |
-3 letters: acmes, acred, acres, adore, arced, armed, arose, cades, cadre, cameo, cames, cards, cared, cares, carom, carse, cased, cedar, ceros, codas, coder. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: coadmires, compadres, democrats. | |
+2 letters: camcorders, cofferdams, commanders, dockmaster, dormancies, mordancies, motorcades. | |
+3 letters: camelopards, commandeers, compradores, comraderies, comradeship, coromandels, democracies, dichromates, dockmasters, ostracoderm, scleroderma. | |
+4 letters: aerodynamics, archdukedoms, bachelordoms, commanderies, commiserated, comradeships, countermands, demarcations, democratizes, demographics, dimercaprols, dominatrices, embarcaderos, hydromancies, immoderacies, isodiametric, microreaders, ostracoderms, proctodaeums, radiochemist, romanticised, sclerodermas. | |
+5 letters: adrenochromes, aeromedicines, chlamydospore, coastguardmen, commandership, comradeliness, democratizers, documentaries, documentarist, hemichordates, melodramatics, myocarditises, overmedicates, predominances, radiochemists, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies, sacerdotalism, scandalmonger, sclerodermata, tragicomedies. | |
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