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campmate

campmate noun: someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.

Noun

campmate (plural campmates)

  1. 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

Forms of campmate

pluralcampmates

Origin of campmate

From camp + -mate.

Questions about campmate

What does campmate mean?
Campmate means someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
What part of speech is campmate?
Campmate is a noun.
What is the plural of campmate?
The plural of campmate is campmates.

Words near campmate in the dictionary

  1. camply
  2. camplyobacteriosis
  3. campman
  4. campmaster
  5. campmasters
  6. campmate
  7. campmates
  8. campmen
  9. campneoside
  10. campneosides
  11. campness

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