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camaraderie - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

• A close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
  • ✤ Synonyms: comradery, comradeship, comradeliness, chumminess, team spirit
  • ✤ Moreover, a spirit of camaraderie exists between the staff of the railway and its regular patrons.¹
  • ✤ And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.²
• A spirit of familiarity and closeness, especially when expressed somewhat boisterously.
  • ✤ 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.³

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French camaraderie.

Recent American pronunciations such as/ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/and/ˌkɑmˈɹɑdəɹi/are influenced by the cognate comrade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/, /ˌkæməˈɹædəɹi/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (General American) IPA: /ˌkɑm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/, /ˌkæm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/
  • Audio (Texas): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 1958 November, M. H. Baker, “The North Borneo Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 790: ↩

2. 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

3. 1838, Caulincourt, Napoleon and his Times, volume 1, page 175: ↩

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