comrade vs confederate

comrade

noun
  • A companion in battle; fellow soldier. 

  • A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person. 

  • A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state. 

  • A mate, companion, or associate. 

verb
  • To associate with in a friendly way. 

confederate

noun
  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher. 

verb
  • To combine in a confederacy. 

adj
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 

  • banded together; allied. 

How often have the words comrade and confederate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )