Meanings
plural comradeships
- countableuncountableThe company or friendship of others, or sharing a goal.
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 861 more example
He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity.
1905, William Cory (William Johnson), Ionica
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishcomrade
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishcomradeship
Translations
Bulgarian друга́рство
- друга́рство (drugárstvo)the company of others
Catalan camaraderia
- camaraderiathe company of others
French camaraderie
- camaraderiethe company of others
Greek συναδελφικότητα
- συναδελφικότητα (synadelfikótita)the company of others
Korean 동지애
- 동지애 (dongjiae)the company of others
Russian това́рищество
- това́рищество (továriščestvo)the company of others
Tagalog pakikisama
- pakikisamathe company of others
Ukrainian товариство
- товариство (tovarystvo)the company of others
Cite this entry
comradeship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comradeship
“comradeship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comradeship. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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