Comrade vs Veteran - What's the difference?
comrade | veteran |
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
A person with long experience of a particular activity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
Having had long experience, practice, or service.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
As nouns the difference between comrade and veteran
is that comrade is a mate, companion, or associate while veteran is veteran.As a verb comrade
is to associate with in a friendly way.comrade
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.
External links
* *Anagrams
*veteran
English
(wikipedia veteran)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Derived terms
* Veterans DayAdjective
(-)- The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
