Companion vs Comrade - What's the difference?
companion | comrade |
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
* Shakespeare
(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
(obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
* 1599 , , III. i. 111:
A mate, companion, or associate.
A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
A fellow socialist, communist or other very politically leftist person.
To associate with in a friendly way.
* Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
As nouns the difference between companion and comrade
is that companion is a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company while comrade is a mate, companion, or associate.As verbs the difference between companion and comrade
is that companion is to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany while comrade is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To associate with in a friendly way.companion
English
Noun
(en noun)- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
- Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
- a companion of the Bath
- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion ,
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* companionable, uncompanionable * companion hatch * companion ladder * companionship * companionwaycomrade
English
(wikipedia comrade)Noun
(en noun)- Hello, comrade . Are you going to the CCP meeting?
- Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.
Synonyms
* see also * (title) compare sister, brother * battle buddy * tovarishchVerb
(comrad)- 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.