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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-665/
- Published: 2026-06-13T18:15:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-13T18:15:45.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

comrade (noun) -

1a: an intimate friend or associate : companion  
b: a fellow soldier  
2 *\[from its use as a form of address by communists\]* : communist

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comrade?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : In Latin, camara or camera denoted a vaulted ceiling or roof. Later, the word simply mean “room, chamber” and was inherited by many European languages with that meaning. In the Spanish, the word became cámara, and a derivative of that was camarada “a group of soldiers quartered in a room” and hence “fellow soldier, companion.” That Spanish word was borrowed into French as camarade and then into Elizabethan English as both camerade and comerade.

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