Camaraderie
Noun
Pronunciation
\kahm-RAH-duh-ree\
Definition
- a spirit of
friendly good-fellowship
Examples
The sense of camaraderie among colleagues in the sales
department is the main reason Julie enjoys coming to work each day.
"Today, visits combine adventure, relaxation and
camaraderie. The latter is hard to come by in winter when snow and cold isolate
people in this already desolate part of the state." — Paul Post, The
New York Times, 2 Feb. 2016
Did You Know?
Camaraderie made its first appearance in English in the
middle of the 19th century. It comes from camarade, the French word whose
Middle French ancestor was also the source for our word comrade. In Middle
French, camarade was used to mean "roommate," "companion,"
or "a group sleeping in one room." It derived by way of Old Spanish
from the Late Latin camera, or camara, meaning "chamber." We also
have the word comradery, which means the same thing as camaraderie but did not
take the same etymological route as its synonym. That word, formed by attaching
the -ry suffix (as found in wizardry and citizenry) to comrade, didn't appear
in English until almost 40 years after camaraderie.
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