different between camaraderie vs comrade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French camaraderie, from Spanish camarada, from cámara (“bedroom”), from Latin camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Literally “one with whom one shares one’s bedroom”. Recent American pronunciations such as /?k?m????d??i/ and /?k?m???d??i/ are influenced by the cognate comrade.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m????d??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæm?????d??i/

Noun

camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

1. Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
2. A spirit of familiarity and closeness
   • 1838, Caulincourt, Napoleon and his Times, Volume 1, page 175:

     There was not one of Napoleon's intimate friends, however high in rank, who would have ventured to indulge in the sort of camaraderie which was kept up between the Emperor and his old moustaches.

Synonyms

• chumminess
• comradery
• comradeship
• comradeliness
• team spirit

Translations

French

Etymology

From camarade (from Spanish camarada (“roommate”), from cámara (“bedroom”), from Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “vaulted chamber”)) +? -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.?a.d?i/

Noun

camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie

Further reading

• “camaraderie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French camaraderie.

Noun

camaraderie f (plural camaraderii)

1. camaraderie

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• comrad

Etymology

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?e?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?æd/, /?k?m??d/

Noun

comrade (plural comrades)

1. A mate, companion, or associate.
2. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
3. (communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

4. (communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:friend
• (title): compare sister, brother
• battle buddy
• tovarish
• compagno

Related terms

Translations

Verb

comrade (third-person singular simple present comrades, present participle comrading, simple past and past participle comraded)

1. (transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.
   • 1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

     But she was happy, for she was far away under another sky, and comrading again with her Rangers, and her animal friends, and the soldiers.

Further reading

• comrade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comrade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• DeMarco, Demarco, Mercado, caromed, dome car