"comrades" in the noun sense
1. companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate
a friend who is frequently in the company of another
"drinking companions"
"comrades in arms"
2. Comrade
a fellow member of the Communist Party
3. brother, comrade
used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
"Greetings, comrade!"
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