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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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Jagger’s bandmates, rock ‘n’ roll comrades, and other A-listers attended their vows—Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and Brigitte Bardot were just a few of the glitterati in the pews.
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Jan. 2026
Fatah were hosting Andreas Baader and his comrades at one camp; other foreign volunteers were at the camps where Leila Khaled had trained in the hills further north.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Breaking with Mamdani and his DSA comrades, Working Families Party officers voted Thursday morning to endorse Romero, WFP co-director Jasmine Gripper confirmed exclusively to the Daily News.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
With his target being a former comrade-in-arms, this triggers a moral dilemma, calling into question all that was fought for.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Jan. 2026
Fatah were hosting Andreas Baader and his comrades at one camp; other foreign volunteers were at the camps where Leila Khaled had trained in the hills further north.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Breaking with Mamdani and his DSA comrades, Working Families Party officers voted Thursday morning to endorse Romero, WFP co-director Jasmine Gripper confirmed exclusively to the Daily News.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
With his target being a former comrade-in-arms, this triggers a moral dilemma, calling into question all that was fought for.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Jan. 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 25 Jan. 2026.
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