Meanings
plural brothers-in-arms · plural rare brethren-in-arms
- comrade in arms (fellow combatant or soldier)
1 more example
But the vengeance I told myself I was getting for Wrex felt like a lie. I could win the game but he wasn't coming back. Being forced to lose my in-game comrade-who I thought of as a virtual person of color and as a brother-in-arms-affected me in a forceful way that I never expected. Mass Effect made me look at myself and think about the way races, classes and individuals bring their histories to bear.
2010 February 18, Evan Narcisse, “Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2013, CultureSynonyms: fellow soldier, battle buddy
Synonyms & antonyms
nouncomrade in arms (fellow combatant or soldier)
Translations
Ancient Greek συστρατιώτης
- συστρατιώτης (sustratiṓtēs)fellow combatant or soldier
Bulgarian брат по оръ́жие, съра́тник
- брат по оръ́жие (brat po orắžie)fellow combatant or soldier
- съра́тник (sărátnik)fellow combatant or soldier
- съра́тница (sărátnica)fellow combatant or soldier
Catalan company d'armes
- company d'armesfellow combatant or soldier
Chinese Mandarin 戰友 /战友
- 戰友 /战友 (zhànyǒu)fellow combatant or soldier
Dutch strijdmakker, wapenbroeder
- strijdmakkerfellow combatant or soldier
- wapenbroederfellow combatant or soldier
Esperanto samsoldato
- samsoldatofellow combatant or soldier
Estonian relvavend
- relvavendfellow combatant or soldier
Finnish aseveli
- asevelifellow combatant or soldier
French frère d'armes
- frère d'armesfellow combatant or soldier
German Waffenbruder
- Waffenbruderfellow combatant or soldier
Greek συμπολεμιστής
- συμπολεμιστής (sympolemistís)fellow combatant or soldier
Hungarian fegyvertárs
- fegyvertársfellow combatant or soldier
Italian commilitone
- commilitonefellow combatant or soldier
Japanese 戦友
- 戦友 (sen'yū)fellow combatant or soldier
Korean 전우
- 전우 (jeonu)fellow combatant or soldier
Latin commiles
- commilesfellow combatant or soldier
Norwegian Bokmål våpenbror
- våpenbrorfellow combatant or soldier
Polish towarzysz broni
- towarzysz bronifellow combatant or soldier
Russian брат по ору́жию, това́рищ по ору́жию
- брат по ору́жию (brat po orúžiju)fellow combatant or soldier
- това́рищ по ору́жию (továrišč po orúžiju)fellow combatant or soldier
- сора́тник (sorátnik)fellow combatant or soldier
- сора́тница (sorátnica)fellow combatant or soldier
- собра́т по ору́жию (sobrát po orúžiju)fellow combatant or soldier
Spanish compañero de fatigas, conmilitón
- compañero de fatigasfellow combatant or soldier
- conmilitónfellow combatant or soldier
Swedish vapenbroder, bundsförvant
- vapenbroderfellow combatant or soldier
- bundsförvantfellow combatant or soldier
- stridskamratfellow combatant or soldier
- medsoldatfellow combatant or soldier
Turkish silah arkadaşı
- silah arkadaşıfellow combatant or soldier
Ukrainian брат по збро́ї, това́риш по збро́ї
- брат по збро́ї (brat po zbróji)fellow combatant or soldier
- това́риш по збро́ї (továryš po zbróji)fellow combatant or soldier
Vietnamese chiến hữu
- chiến hữufellow combatant or soldier
Cite this entry
brother-in-arms. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brother-in-arms
“brother-in-arms.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brother-in-arms. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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