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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French camaraderie.
Recent American pronunciations such as /ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/ and /ˌkɑmˈɹɑdəɹi/ are influenced by the cognate comrade.
Pronunciation
Noun
camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)
- Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English:And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.
- 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
Translations
close friendship in a group of friends
- Arabic: صَدَاقَة (ar) f (ṣadāqa)
- Belarusian: сябро́ўства n (sjabróŭstva), тавары́ства n (tavarýstva), дру́жба f (drúžba), тавары́скасць f (tavarýskascʹ)
- Bulgarian: друга́рство (bg) n (drugárstvo), прия́телство (bg) n (prijátelstvo)
- Catalan: camaraderia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 友情 (zh) (yǒuqíng), 友誼 / 友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì)
- Danish: kammerateri n
- Dutch: kameraadschap (nl) f
- Finnish: toveruus (fi)
- French: camaraderie (fr) f
- German: Kameradschaft (de) f
- Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) f (synadelfikótita), συντροφικότητα (el) f (syntrofikótita)
- Hebrew: רֵעוּת (he) f (re'út)
- Hungarian: barátság (hu)
- Icelandic: félagsandi m, góður kunningsskapur m, góð samskipti n pl
- Japanese: 友情 (ja) (ゆうじょう, yūjō)
- Korean: 우정 (ko) (ujeong)
- Macedonian: другарство n (drugarstvo)
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: kameraderi (no) n
- Persian: رفاقت (fa) (refâqat)
- Polish: towarzystwo (pl) n, koleżeństwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: camaradagem (pt) f, camaradaria f
- Russian: това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo), дру́жба (ru) f (drúžba)
- Serbo-Croatian: камарадерија f, kamaraderija f
- Spanish: camaradería (es) f
- Swedish: kamratskap (sv) n
- Turkish: arkadaşlık; dostluk
- Ukrainian: товари́ство (uk) n (tovarýstvo), дру́жба (uk) f (drúžba), прия́тельство n (pryjátelʹstvo)
- Vietnamese: tình bạn (vi)
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a spirit of familiarity and closeness
See also
French
Etymology
From camarade + -erie.
Pronunciation
Noun
camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)
- camaraderie
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French camaraderie. By surface analysis, camarad + -erie.
Noun
camaraderie f (plural camaraderii)
- camaraderie
Declension