Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A comrade.
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- noun Alternative form of
tovarish .
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- noun a comrade (especially in Russian communism)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Looks like you beat them to the punch there tovarich.
"Good morning. I forget whether I'm supposed to wish you a 'Happy Earth Day' or a 'Happy Lenin's Birthday.' Oh, wait. It's both." Ann Althouse 2009
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And why does he have to stay locked in the cold war as your comrade the meaning of tovarich, there is a very different word for “friend”?
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Pogo, where is moi drug pronounced dr-oo-g, мой друг, tovarich PogoПОССУМ?
"Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..." Ann Althouse 2008
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That's the United States Air Force Reserve Pipe Band you're looking at, tovarich. posted by John at 6: 07 PM
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003
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"Don't you agree, tovarich?" the KGB man said, beaming.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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"We're alive, tovarich, alive, so how can a day be filthy, eh?"
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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"Don't you agree, tovarich?" the KGB man said, beaming.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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"We're alive, tovarich, alive, so how can a day be filthy, eh?"
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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"If you believed, you would live a longer and better life, tovarich."
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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I salute tovarich Polyakov, and am beginning to wonder if - yet again, I have been too conservative.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
Machomanne commented on the word tovarich
This has also been lent into Finnish: toveri = comrade.
November 13, 2013