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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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From the agency’s command post five stories beneath a high-rise in Kyiv, the general and several of his comrades, including Fedorov, monitored the launch of the naval drones on a bank of screens.
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Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
During the pilot, Dutton meets with an old comrade from his days as a Navy SEAL who gradually recruits him into their four-person Marshal team.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
Selfless sacrifice in order to stay with his comrades, stay with his unit until the very end.
—Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
The news division’s president and Beale’s old comrade-in-broadcasting-arms, Max Schumacher (William Holden), takes his friend out for a drink.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
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Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
During the pilot, Dutton meets with an old comrade from his days as a Navy SEAL who gradually recruits him into their four-person Marshal team.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
Selfless sacrifice in order to stay with his comrades, stay with his unit until the very end.
—Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
The news division’s president and Beale’s old comrade-in-broadcasting-arms, Max Schumacher (William Holden), takes his friend out for a drink.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for comrade
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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