camaraderie

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

French, from Spanish camarada, from cámara (“bedroom”), from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Literally “one with whom one shares one's bedroom”. Compare comrade.

Noun

camaraderie (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

Translations

close friendship in a group of friends

Catalan: camaraderia (ca) f. Dutch: kameraadschap (nl) German: Kameradschaft (de) Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) (synadelfikótita) f., συντροφικότητα (el) (syntrofikótita) f.

Icelandic: félagsandi (is) m., góður kunningsskapur (is) m., góð samskipti (is) n. pl. Japanese: 友情 (ja) (ゆうじょう, yūjō) Norwegian Bokmål: kameraderi (no) n. Serbian: камарадерија (sr) (kamaraderija) f.

a spirit of familiarity and closeness

Catalan: camaraderia (ca) f.

Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) (synadelfikótita) f.

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French

Etymology

From Spanish camarada, from cámara (“bedroom”). Literally "one with whom one shares one's bedroom"

Noun

camaraderie f. (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie