Meanings
plural tovarishches
- alternativeAlternative form of tovarish.
There's no other way, tovarishch, no other way!
2010, Patrik Ouředník, translated by Alex Zucker, Case Closed, page 1314 more examples
The people were surprised that the old Moshka had business with tovarishch Commissar.
1963, Jews and the Jewish People, page 69Yes, a watch, and this tovarishch has given it to me.
1963, Jacob Klein-Haparash, He Who Flees the Lion, page 84["]As for Spain, do you honestly think" (she was addressing Reg) "that there's a desire on the part of Tovarishch Stalin to save Catalonian anarchism and syndicalism and liberal socialism? I shouldn’t be surprised if Moscow gold is helping to finance Franco."
1989, Anthony Burgess, “Dau”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 82“I will remember, tovarishch,” I answered uncertainly, not knowing how I should address him.
2004, Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way, page 45
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