comrade

noun

Plural: comrades

A colleague or friend; buddy; mate. Specifically: A fellow citizen or coworker in countries with enforced socialistic or communistic civic relations. There, this word also replaces the discouraged forms of classical addressing (Mr⋅, Mrs⋅, Ms⋅, sir, madam, ...) with the state-promoted formalisms (C⋅ or Comr⋅, e.g. in common phrases such as Comr⋅ Brown instead of Mr⋅ Brown; c⋅ doctor instead of Mr⋅ doctor; etc⋅).