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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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Clooney enjoins his comrades to feel justified in twisting journalism from objectivity to partisanship.
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Apr. 2025
Sometimes residents stole clothing from their comrades, sold it, and pocketed the profits.
— Made By History, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
With Assad's ouster in December, Halaby, now 29, returned to his neighborhood of Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, to watch a backhoe unearth the remains of at least eight of his comrades from a mass grave.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Another seems to half-pass out, either from exhaustion or shock, while tending to a wounded comrade.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Apr. 2025
Sometimes residents stole clothing from their comrades, sold it, and pocketed the profits.
— Made By History, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
With Assad's ouster in December, Halaby, now 29, returned to his neighborhood of Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, to watch a backhoe unearth the remains of at least eight of his comrades from a mass grave.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Another seems to half-pass out, either from exhaustion or shock, while tending to a wounded comrade.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 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 13 May. 2025.
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