different between camaraderie vs society

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

• soc. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French societé , from Latin societ?s, societ?tem (“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), from socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sok?-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??sa?.?.ti/

Noun

society (countable and uncountable, plural societies)

1. (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
2. (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

3. (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
4. (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
5. (uncountable) High society.
6. (countable, law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

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References

Further reading

• "society" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 291.