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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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Yet the North Vietnamese were not the ideological comrades of American college students and Jane Fonda.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Israel has been hunting him and his comrades, picking them off by airstrike and drone, in surprise attacks that often kill civilians alongside them.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 12 Apr. 2026
By focusing on her relationships with comrades and the inner turmoil of conflict, My Dear Theo offers a unique, intimate view of war that transcends traditional documentary storytelling.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
The young Xi became one of only three private secretaries to the defense minister, an old comrade of his father’s called Geng Biao.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Israel has been hunting him and his comrades, picking them off by airstrike and drone, in surprise attacks that often kill civilians alongside them.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 12 Apr. 2026
By focusing on her relationships with comrades and the inner turmoil of conflict, My Dear Theo offers a unique, intimate view of war that transcends traditional documentary storytelling.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
The young Xi became one of only three private secretaries to the defense minister, an old comrade of his father’s called Geng Biao.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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