0 a friend or someone you trust, for example because they work with you or come from the same place as you; used especially by or of a Spanish-speaking person:
Among Stuart's most important compadres were his fellow Mississippians B. B. King and the Staple Singers.
"Culturally, we have a trust that 'this guy's not going to do me wrong, he's my compadre,'" she said.
He and three compadres are now planning to ride off into the sunset for a well-earned early retirement.
By using "these powerladen exotics" as gifts, core elites could create patron- client chains similar to the compadre networks referred to earlier.
By converting a patron into a compadre, a client is again trying to represent a fundamentally hierarchical relationship as one of mutuality and reciprocity.
Now, the term compadre, or its abbreviated form pare, is normally used in address to indicate intimacy and equality.
Moreover, one can extend secondary relationships to the kin and compadres of a compadre, with whom one has a primary relationship.
There is a relationship of respect, mutual affection and obligation between the child, parents and compadres.
