schoolmate
- noun
- /ˈskuːlˌmeɪt/
- During the reunion, I was excited to see all my old schoolmates again after so many years.
Examples
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I was also making friends in high school with schoolmates who had similar interests.
Academic text (1990) -
Once more he saw himself entering class for the first time, strange schoolmates all around him.
Fiction book (1997) -
I was walking to Honor High on a warm fall morning with a schoolmate of mine, Dee Average.
Fiction book (2002) -
The inventor is an old schoolmate of mine.
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Anyway, I ran into some schoolmates and thought they might be friendly.
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One of my schoolmates comes with his father to our farm to beg for work.
Fiction book (2000) -
This young man is one of my daughter's schoolmates.
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Richard Siemens, a Kansas schoolmate of mine, also became a physician.
Academic text (1999) -
They were schoolmates of mine.
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I had been with some schoolmates, and we'd skated for hours.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
A person in the same class at school or university
A person who goes to the same school as you
A person who studies with you in the same class
A person who is in the same class at school or university as you
A student in the same class at school or college
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Schoolmate is made of two simple words: school and mate. School means 'place for learning' and mate means 'companion' or 'friend', so a schoolmate is someone who goes to the same school as you.