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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
camaraderie
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
enjoy
▪ She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.
▪ For example, you may be some one who does not enjoy the enforced camaraderie of office life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I enjoy the camaraderie among the team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the main and most pleasant surprise was the sense of camaraderie among climbers in the Alps.
▪ He warily gazed around at his detractors, fully aware that any slim camaraderie they shared was likely to smolder as well.
▪ In particular, Haslam found the camaraderie he experienced working alongside mineworkers extremely rewarding.
▪ Of course, physical contact is not the only evidence of camaraderie.
▪ She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.
▪ She would have instant friends, instant camaraderie and the chance to travel.
▪ That team camaraderie is probably why I had played basketball so long.
▪ There was a lot of camaraderie and respect there.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camaraderie

Camara dos Pares \Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res\, and Camara dos Deputados \Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos\ See Legislature. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||Camaraderie \Ca`ma`ra`de*rie"\, n. Comradeship and loyalty.

The spirit of camaraderie is strong among these riders of the plains.
--W. A. Fraser. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
camaraderie

1840, from French camaraderie, from camarade "comrade" (see comrade).

Wiktionary
camaraderie

n. 1 Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates. 2 A spirit of familiarity and closeness

WordNet
camaraderie

n. the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability [syn: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship]

Usage examples of "camaraderie".

Feeling distracted and irritated by the forced camaraderie of the recovery room, nomas retreated to the surgical lounge.

The closest anyone ever came to casual camaraderie with the Padishah Emperor was the relationship offered by Count Hasimir Fenring, a companion from childhood.

Instead of which he had condemned himself to further childlessness, since the residents of the Beau Rivage would not be young, would indeed be drawn together by the camaraderie of the impaired.

There was an ease, a go-as-you-please about the day underground, a delightful camaraderie of men shut off alone from the rest of the world, in a dangerous place, and a variety of labour, holing, loading, timbering, and a glamour of mystery and adventure in the atmosphere, that made the pit not unattractive to him when he had again got over his anguish of desire for the open air and the sea.

Paul felt a strange camaraderie with the man, a need to share the fear, understand it before insanity took over, but he knew if he said anything wrong, Speckler would let him rot in the cell.

Used to the easy camaraderie of camps at fossil digs, he found the atmosphere at dinner appalling.

I joined motorcycle gangs to raise hell, ride bikes, and enjoy the camaraderie of a brotherhood.

When they encountered the well-guarded packtrain of a Tolnedran merchant moving west, Silk had made his transition and he greeted the merchant with the easy camaraderie of a man of trade.

The San Shin Building was one of the few anodes on which the various occupying powers collected, and one could feel the reserve and mistrust underlying their superficial camaraderie.

Ingram felt that it was important to create a sense of camaraderie among all employees and to reinforce for the customers the concept of company uniformity.

A morbid camaraderie has arisen between spellers, numbered placards drooping from their necks like turkey wattles.

When one is part of a small and comparatively insignificant clique, warming one self in its closeness and camaraderie, what happens if one of the clique suddenly rises and becomes famous in the wild world outside?

But this time their conquest was not by conversion, for the Archaics and Neandertals lacked the associative water minds, the camaraderie of the arts, the unity of group self-awareness.

You found the same collegial spirit, with its masonic taciturnity and instinctive discretion, the same camaraderie and grit, the same alcohol reliance.

His father spoke of his bomber crew having had that intense camaraderie during World War II.