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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
schoolmate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new family had to be created, of friends, coworkers and schoolmates.
▪ At least for a short time, schoolmates often showed deference to their fallen peers.
▪ His sad, excruciatingly well-behaved adolescence is inextricable from the progress of a doomed friendship with an eccentric schoolmate, Smallgods.
▪ It went back to her childhood when she had been teased by her schoolmates about her stammer.
▪ Margarett snaps Miss Sheldon, chaperone of the Florentine School, and two schoolmates lounging on deck chairs.
▪ The Phinneys-the parents of his schoolmate Tad-were very sporting about turning their house into an armed camp for the night.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schoolmate

Schoolmate \School"mate`\, n. A pupil who attends the same school as another.

Wiktionary
schoolmate

alt. A person who attended the same school. n. A person who attended the same school.

WordNet
schoolmate

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

Usage examples of "schoolmate".

She knew that she was called The Wonder by the schoolmates who were dazzled by her singular accomplishments, but she did not overvalue them.

Wendell Stokeberry was currently a resident of the Clackamas County jail and had recently renewed a friendship with Tom Brown, an old schoolmate from the MacLaren School for Boys.

Cordula, but the caller turned out to be an old schoolmate, and Cordula feigned limpid delight, while making big eyes at Van over the receiver, and invented a number of unconvincing engagements.

A few minutes later he landed on the roof of the Transcontinental Airways shops, entered them, and went to the office of the Designing Engineer, John Fuller, an old schoolmate.

Among my schoolmates at the Port School was a young girl of singular loveliness.

Her air to her schoolmates was marked by a certain stateliness and distance, as if she had other thoughts than theirs and was not of them.

After sitting at her desk until her head was hot and her feet were like ice, she would go and look at the blooming young girls exercising in the gymnasium of the school, and feel as if she would give all her knowledge, all her mathematics and strange tongues and history, all those accomplishments that made her the encyclopaedia of every class she belonged to, if she could go through the series of difficult and graceful exercises in which she saw her schoolmates delighting.

She knew that she was called The Wonder by the schoolmates who were dazzled by her singular accomplishments, but she did not overvalue them.

Luce was putting on a surgical mask, and my schoolmates back in Grosse Pointe were pointing at me and laughing, their faces lit with malicious joy.

She had soon learned to adopt an attitude of indifference to shield herself from the taunts of her schoolmates.

In less than three weeks I congratulated myself on having forgotten the Charpillon, and on having replaced her by innocent amours, though one of my daughter's schoolmates pleased me rather too much for my peace of mind.

Says she doesnae want tae show hersel' up in front O aw these auld schoolmates.

I froze and burst out with cold sores which my schoolmates promptly diagnosed as cancer.

He grew tired of allowing Glorieta her youth and eloped with our schoolmate, guess who?

He knew this and therefore proceeded from that chance Game plan that he and his schoolmates had composed in an elementary course.