campmate

campmate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English camp
English -mate
English campmate

    From camp + -mate.

    Noun

    campmate (plural campmates)

    1. Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
      • 2012, Nanci Adler, Keeping Faith with the Party, →ISBN:
        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."
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