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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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One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
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Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Unfortunately, some of his comrades don’t receive him warmly.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Vladimir Lenin believed that such families were a prison for women, and his revolutionary comrades—among them, his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya; his mistress Inessa Armand; and his ally Alexandra Kollontai—were assigned the task of freeing them from it.
—Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Haley Macintyre wasn’t the only comrade in total shock.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Unfortunately, some of his comrades don’t receive him warmly.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Vladimir Lenin believed that such families were a prison for women, and his revolutionary comrades—among them, his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya; his mistress Inessa Armand; and his ally Alexandra Kollontai—were assigned the task of freeing them from it.
—Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Haley Macintyre wasn’t the only comrade in total shock.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 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 24 Oct. 2025.
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