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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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In the series’ end, Harry and his sometime school comrades and allied teachers and others, fight off said tormented self-loathing wizard as, simultaneously, fascistic muggles rise, opposing the mere existence of their kind.
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Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
The plan was overturned last month by two rabid appellate-court comrades in what became that news cycle’s apocalyptic walls-closing-in-on-Trump story.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
Initially, your comrades explain tutorials at base camp.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
All of our colleagues are deeply saddened by the loss of such a devoted comrade.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
The plan was overturned last month by two rabid appellate-court comrades in what became that news cycle’s apocalyptic walls-closing-in-on-Trump story.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
Initially, your comrades explain tutorials at base camp.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
All of our colleagues are deeply saddened by the loss of such a devoted comrade.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Nov. 2025
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 26 Dec. 2025.
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