English edit

Etymology edit

From camp +‎ -mate.

Noun edit

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."