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comrades

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Fellow companions bound by shared experience, cause, or loyalty; in poetry, comrades evoke solidarity, sacrifice, and the bonds forged through adversity or common purpose.

Detailed Definition
Comrades is a more formal or historical word for companions, often used for soldiers or political allies. In the poem it refers to the dead men’s fellow soldiers: "They mingle not with their laughing comrades again."
Example
Example in poetry:
“They mingle not with their laughing comrades again” makes comrades fellow companions whose laughter intensifies absence; Owen’s war poetry uses soldiers’ fellowship to make battlefield loss personal; In “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “the six hundred” become a collective body of comrades; A contemporary protest poem may call marchers comrades to emphasize shared risk, political solidarity, or affection
Additional Notes
The word comrades is familiar in meaning but less common in modern everyday usage, and here it has a military-historical tone.; Found in the poem, For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
Also Known As
companions allies peers brethren cohorts colleagues
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