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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classmate
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ She moves away into the crowd as I embrace my old classmates.
▪ The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.
▪ He was no more than twenty feet from his old classmate.
▪ The funeral of an old high-school classmate just makes him more miserable.
■ NOUN
school
▪ Rosemary, a year older than Leith, had been Sebastian's school classmate.
▪ The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.
▪ Because he was stronger than his high school classmate, and more conscious of speed and balance, he beat Schwartwalder easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ BIn the process, however, they pose special challenges -- and problems -- for teachers and classmates alike.
▪ But 4 months on, Kelly has rejoined her classmates.
▪ Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
▪ Family members and Notre Dame classmates surprised him, too.
▪ Our classmates tested five bats from K. C. Slammer.
▪ The funeral of an old high-school classmate just makes him more miserable.
▪ The horizons are gradually extended to include playgroup supervisors and classmates.
▪ We seem to be laboring under the naive notion that teen-age girls get pregnant after going too far with their high-school classmates.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Classmate

Classmate \Class"mate`\, n. One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classmate

"one of the same class at school or college," 1713, from class (n.) + mate (n.).

Wiktionary
classmate

n. Student who is in the same class (in school)

WordNet
classmate

n. an acquaintance that you go to school with [syn: schoolmate, schoolfellow, class fellow]

Usage examples of "classmate".

Almost immediately after the blackheart had come to rest, the boy ceased his energetic activity and walked stiffly, slowly, for several paces, his face devoid of expression, and even when the blackheart floated away, he did not regain his good spirits at once, but moved dazedly, falling far behind his classmates.

Marshall spun around and saw Sandy, standing just beside the door he had just burst through, apparently trying to hide from her classmates among the camelia bushes and looking very much like she was about to take him to task.

Nearly ten years elapsed before anything further was accomplished in the direction of assuring any greater hope of success for another interplanetary venture into space, and this was directly due to the discovery made by a former classmate of mine, Lieutenant Commander Orthis, one of the most brilliant men I have ever known, and at the same time one of the most unscrupulous, and, to me at least, the most obnoxious.

Chicago detective his classmates call Popeye because of the anchor tattooed on his left forearm.

Using their best Cheech and Chong voices, my classmates repeated a string of bad pothead jokes.

My father was a judge and the ethics of his profession prevented him from speculating in stocks, but he had an old friend, his college classmate, who had made millions and millions on the Stock Exchange.

And since Summerfield had been an EA himself and was a classmate of admirals, Dan felt that he knew what he was talking about.

The Data Bank, his classmates at Annapolis had called him: program him with facts, and then watch his mouth spit out the logical answers.

Out of context, her avid self-decoration would have been cute, perhaps, but surrounded by so much other peculiar behavior on the part of her classmates, it was difficult not to see even this harmless pastime as evidence of a deeper and more pathological disorder.

Trying hard not to breathe, Roberta watched as, one by one, the brawling children, along with the rest of their behaviorally impaired classmates, succumbed to the narcotic effect of the billowing white fumes.

His genes made him stronger and smarter than ordinary children, and even among his similarly gifted classmates, Noon stood out as someone special.

He already knew that ordinary people were a lot more fragile than he and his classmates were, even if this salient fact had somehow escaped the attention of Suzette and some of the other kids.

She could only hope that, wherever Noon and his classmates had gone, they were someplace very far from the radioactive inferno Chrysalis was about to become.

After a hefty dose of cajolement coupled with money for hamburgers and milkshakes, Caron and Inez abandoned their classmates and left for the hospital.

It was Friday and my classmates and I were dressed for the morning assembly, the girls in white starched middy blouses and red scarves, the boys in white shirts and ties.