schoolmate

Examples

• All

• 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.

  Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

• Anyway, I ran into some schoolmates and thought they might be friendly.

  Cry Wolf (1947)

• 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.

  The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

• Richard Siemens, a Kansas schoolmate of mine, also became a physician.

  Academic text (1999)

• They were schoolmates of mine.

  A Christmas Carol (2009)

• I had been with some schoolmates, and we'd skated for hours.

  Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

C

classmate

vsschoolmate

179 1.0

A person in the same class at school or university

indicates attending the same school at the same time, not necessarily the same class

S

schoolfellow

vsschoolmate

• UK

1 5.2

A person who goes to the same school as you

is the same meaning but is the more common modern term

C

compañero

vsschoolmate

7.6

A person who studies with you in the same class

refers to attending the same school at the same time rather than only classes

C

class fellow

vsschoolmate

• Indian

2.7

A person who is in the same class at school or university as you

focuses on shared class membership rather than general school attendance

C

classman

vsschoolmate

4.6

A student in the same class at school or college

highlights attending the same school at the same time rather than class year

Antonyms

O

outsider

283 4.1

A person who is not accepted by a group or community

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology