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In Latin, camara or camera denoted a vaulted ceiling or roof. Later, the word simply mean “room, chamber” and was inherited by many European languages with that meaning. In the Spanish, the word became cámara, and a derivative of that was camarada “a group of soldiers quartered in a room” and hence “fellow soldier, companion.” That Spanish word was borrowed into French as camarade and then into Elizabethan English as both camerade and comerade.
Examples of comrade in a Sentence
He enjoys spending time with his old army comrades.
the boy, and two others who are known to be his comrades, are wanted for questioning by the police
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More grounded in reality than his tech-utopian comrades and financially ascendant thanks to his skeptic’s foresight about crises like the one Ven has caused, Jeff is reluctant to bail out his frenemy.
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Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Godard has no script, working instead from a treatment by his comrade François Truffaut, and also from ideas that come to mind before and during shooting; whenever inspiration runs dry, production wraps for the day.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Chapter veterans from five branches of services will honor several hundred comrades from Southern California who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
According to Larry Gloss, citing the Russian death certificate, his son died on April 4, 2024, from massive blood loss during an artillery barrage while trying to assist a wounded comrade.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Godard has no script, working instead from a treatment by his comrade François Truffaut, and also from ideas that come to mind before and during shooting; whenever inspiration runs dry, production wraps for the day.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Chapter veterans from five branches of services will honor several hundred comrades from Southern California who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
According to Larry Gloss, citing the Russian death certificate, his son died on April 4, 2024, from massive blood loss during an artillery barrage while trying to assist a wounded comrade.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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