COMRADESHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comradeship mean? 

• COMRADESHIP (noun)
  The noun COMRADESHIP has 1 sense:

1. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

  Familiarity information: COMRADESHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMRADESHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

camaraderie; chumminess; comradeliness; comradery; comradeship

Hypernyms ("comradeship" is a kind of...):

sociability; sociableness (the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows)

Derivation:

comrade (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)

 Context examples 

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last night we all supped at Lord John Roxton's rooms, and sitting together afterwards we smoked in good comradeship and talked our adventures over.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a soul-possession he dreamed, refined beyond any grossness, a free comradeship of spirit that he could not put into definite thought.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Our comradeship was becoming tremulous, I had mastered my love long and well, but now it was mastering me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Forever after Buck avoided his blind side, and to the last of their comradeship had no more trouble.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And the sun is gone,” she said, her eyes still fixed upon our island, where we had proved our mastery over matter and attained to the truest comradeship that may fall to man and woman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We had been friends, quite good friends; but never could I get beyond the same comradeship which I might have established with one of my fellow-reporters upon the Gazette,—perfectly frank, perfectly kindly, and perfectly unsexual.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)