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to·va·rich

 (tə-vär′ĭch, -ĭsh) or to·va·rish (-ĭsh)
n.
A comrade.

[Russian tovarishch, from Old Russian tovarishchĭ, sing. of tovarishchi, business associates, from Old Turkic tavar ishchi, businessman, merchant : tavar, wealth, trade + ishchi, one who works (from ish, work, business).]
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Noun1.tovarich - a comrade (especially in Russian communism)tovarich - a comrade (especially in Russian communism)
Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
companion, comrade, familiar, fellow, associate - a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
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References in periodicals archive ?
"Pushkin--nash tovarishch." Literaturnyi kritik, no.
Lenin Fishing Collective Farm, Petrovskie Nivy, Myasnoy Soyuz State Company, Tovarishch Myasoff, Lina, Russian Fishing-Industry Company, Tropic International, Nevskaya, Food City, Azbuka Kachestva, Belevskaya Pastilee Manufactory, Nevsky Konditer, Union of Penza Confectioners, Fort Trade Food, Barco, Moremaniya, Carat Trading, Maguros, Ochakovo, Chetyre Sezona, Klin Snack, etc.
(59) Boris Kolonitskii, "Tovarishch Kerenskii": Antimonarkhicheskaia revoliutsiia i formirovanie kul't "vodzhia naroda"(mart-iiun' 1917 goda) (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017).
Then there's the pure, uncut tovarishch talk of "you're a great American," the salutation Sean Hannity exchanges with favored guests and callers on his radio show.
a) Tovarishch b) HMS Victory c) Cutty Sark 5) Which famous River Tees Bridge celebrated its 75th birthday in 2009?
The famous Tovarishch sailed into Tyneside for essential repair works, only two years after the Ukrainian vessel had won the hearts of the region as one of the stars of the 1993 Tall Ships race.
Byt' mozhet, nautro vnezapno iavias', Vrag derzkii, nadmennosti polnyi, Tebia ne uvazhit, tovarishch, anas Umchat nevozvratnye volny.
Still, nowhere in Ak Welpasar's novel is Niyazov's name mentioned directly, and the protagonist modeled after him also remains nameless, although his cumbersome title, gospodin tovarishch president (mister comrade president), resonates on every page like a drumbeat, bringing incessant attention to bear on the fact that the former "comrade"--communist first secretary--of the erstwhile Soviet republic has smoothly transitioned into a respectable "mister president." Kobra reveals that the transition is nothing more than "window dressing" and that little has changed for the people of Turkmenistan, who remain oppressed and impoverished, while the wealth of the now oil- and gas-rich country continues to flow into the hands of Niyazov and his clan.
"Bistro, bistro, tovarishch," the refectory proprietor shouted as he walked between tables.
In the last fever of illness, with his last remains of sensibility, Hershl Toker felt that once again "he" was here in the barrack, the person who came here night after night, barefooted, in sleepy devotion, in order to watch over hi.m, over Hershl Toker, on his sickbed; in order to approach him with silent tread, like the silent windy gusts around the hanging lamp, and to whisper into his ear a greeting from all the comrades with whom he, Hershl, had lived together until now, as well as from those other comrade fellow fighters scattered all over the world -- a simple greeting, in a few words: "A chto, tovarishch? ...
Many words, such as biznes, kapitalizm, and terms of address such as gospodin and tovarishch, have changed their connotations, for some speakers at least.