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  • noun someone who lives in the same camp as another.

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  • noun Someone in the same camp as another.

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  • noun someone who lives in the same camp you do

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Examples

  • Been campmate a season with a renegade French Canadian who'd studied for the church.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Been campmate a season with a renegade French Canadian who'd studied for the church.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • After the letter was read, we didn't discuss what we had learned, nor did we lend our support for our grieving campmate.

    Suicide Rough Drafts Matt Brandstein 2008

  • After the letter was read, we didn't discuss what we had learned, nor did we lend our support for our grieving campmate.

    Suicide Rough Drafts 2008

  • The boys didn't quite see the logic of this, but they knew from former experiences that the young reporter was a good campmate, and they were, on the whole, glad that they had included him.

    The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner

  • He greeted me in carefully correct English; and while quiet, reserved, and cold of speech as of manner, the tones in which he assured me any friend of Mr. Gardiner was welcome, conveyed faint traces of cordiality that roused some hope that he might prove a more agreeable campmate than his dour mien promised.

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Been campmate a season with a renegade French Canadian who'd studied for the church.

    A Hyperborean Brew 1904

  • There is something more than mere knowledge to be desired in a companion on a long tramp, and this is reliance in his fidelity, cheerful disposition, and readiness to shoulder at least half of the labor -- without these qualities in a campmate much of the pleasure is missing.

    Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan George Rathborne 1896

  • His campmate naturally enough cast his eyes in the same quarter, as if sudden hope had sprung into existence; but it was to see the flames shoot out of the window in a manner that must have utterly precluded the possibility of Owen making an exit there.

    Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan George Rathborne 1896

  • Glen and Binney were raised from a depth of dismay, caused by the loss of their money and the resulting predicament into which they were thrown, to a height of felicity at the prospect of a raft voyage down the Mississippi, under the leadership of their beloved campmate, Billy

    Raftmates A Story of the Great River Kirk Munroe 1890

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