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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.
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Michael Lee, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
Rum punch flowed from street vendors, smoke billowed in thick clouds, and strangers became temporary comrades as the DJ commanded the massive crowd into call and response.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 3 Apr. 2024
While Paso Robles has been touted for many years as the home of wines that are excellent values compared to regions farther north, Tablas Creek and its comrades in farming are known for their high-end offerings, especially their Rhône-style wines that have helped to define the AVA’s reputation.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2024
The right hails these dictators as ideological comrades in the war to preserve traditional society, the values of order and patriarchy, against the assault of the decadent left.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
Rybak concluded that by 2002, Lamont—who Rybak says may have been comrades with Voss in the drug underworld—borrowed the idea for himself and started a second ring doing the same thing.
—Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
Godzilla and Kong each have a complicated relationship with their place in the earthly cosmos, and the story jumps through major hoops to transform them from foes to comrades.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
Next up was a government representative, handing out brochures intended for female comrades.
—Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
The walls of Abu Hussam’s living room are lined with posters of his dead comrades, killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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