English

Noun

tovarishch ‎(plural tovarishches)

1. Alternative form of tovarish
   • 1963, Jews and the Jewish People, page 69:

     The people were surprised that the old Moshka had business with tovarishch Commissar.

   • 1963, Jacob Klein-Haparash, He Who Flees the Lion, page 84:

     Yes, a watch, and this tovarishch has given it to me.

   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     As for Spain, do you really 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.’

   • 2004, Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way, page 45:

     “I will remember, tovarishch,” I answered uncertainly, not knowing how I should address him.

   • 2010, Patrik Ouředník, Case Closed, page 131:

     There's no other way, tovarishch, no other way!