camaraderie

Unadapted borrowing from French camaraderie.

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/, /ˌkæməˈɹædəɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/, /ˌkæm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/

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camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

1. 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^[1]:

     And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.

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.

• chumminess
• comradery
• comradeship
• comradeliness
• team spirit

• camarade

From camarade +‎ -erie.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.ʁa.dʁi/

camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie

• “camaraderie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French camaraderie. By surface analysis, camarad +‎ -erie.

camaraderie f (plural camaraderii)

1. camaraderie