Meanings
nouncampmate (plural campmates)
plural campmates
- Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
In the course of his deliberations he refers to a letter he received from a released campmate who had also been a Party member. She wrote, "My generation of communists everywhere accepted the Stalin form of leadership."
2012, Nanci Adler, Keeping Faith with the Party, →ISBN
Origin
- Englishcamp
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Germanic*ga-
- Proto-Germanic*matiz
- Proto-Germanic*matjô
- Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
- Old Saxongimato
- Middle Low Germanmate
- Middle Englishmate
- Englishmate
- Englishcampmate
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APA
campmate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/campmate
MLA
“campmate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/campmate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “campmate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/campmate.
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