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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

감방 동료

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gambang dongryo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cellmate/ˈsɛl.meɪt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #24500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 감방 동료와 체스 게임을 했다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A person with whom one shares a prison cell.

    "He spent five years talking philosophy and playing chess with his cellmate."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word is a compound combining 'cell' (derived from the Latin 'cella', meaning a small room or hut) and 'mate' (from Middle Low German 'gemat', meaning a companion or messmate). It emerged in the 19th century within penal vocabulary to describe individuals sharing a prison cell.

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