camaraderie

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noun ca·ma·ra·de·rie \ˌkäm-ˈrä-d(ə-)rē, ˌkam-, ˌkä-mə-, ˌka-, -ˈra-\

Simple Definition of camaraderie

: a feeling of good friendship among the people in a group

Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

Full Definition of camaraderie

: a spirit of friendly good-fellowship

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Examples of camaraderie in a sentence

It is about the camaraderie of troops bound for Vietnam who as their leader warns, have one another and nothing but one another when they fall into hell. —Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic, 25 Mar. 2002
… men on the sunny side of middle age, physical, competitive, used to the quick camaraderie of the team, be it a firefighting squad or a trading desk. —Robert Lipsyte, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2002
Except for occasional bursts of camaraderie, which came like thunderstorms, we were never close. —W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe, 1982
The best of adolescence was the intense male friendships—not only because of the cozy feelings of camaraderie they afforded … but because of the opportunity they provided for uncensored talk. —Philip Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 1975
There is great camaraderie among the teammates.
They have developed a real camaraderie after working together for so long.

Did You Know?

Camaraderie comes from camarade, the French word whose Middle French ancestor was also the source for our word comrade. Camaraderie made its first appearance in English in the middle of the 19th century. In Middle French, camarade was used to mean "roommate," "companion," or "a group sleeping in one room." It developed by way of Old Spanish from the Late Latin camera, meaning "chamber." We also have the word comradery, which means the same thing as camaraderie but did not take the same etymological route as its synonym. That word, formed by attaching the -ry suffix (as found in wizardry and citizenry) to comrade, didn't appear in English until almost 40 years after camaraderie.