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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the same class at school or college; a classmate.

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Examples

  • Among them is a young Pole -- a Count Lubienski, a very agreeable and intelligent gentleman -- a class-fellow.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Principal Haldane was succeeded by my old class-fellow, Principal Tulloch, in harmony with whom I wrought for thirty years in the College, occasionally taking part of his work, as I had of his predecessor's, when he was laid aside by ill-health, and also taking part with him in Church work, especially in the work of the Anti-Patronage Committee, on whose success so many in the Church had set their hearts.

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • Muses 'Temple, shook me warmly by the hand, and then, all of a sudden, as if recollecting himself, told me to greet my class-fellow.

    Marjorie 1898

  • Dugald Stewart's father, Professor Matthew Stewart of Edinburgh, was a class-fellow of Smith's at Glasgow; and Dugald Stewart has heard his father reminding Smith of a “geometrical problem of considerable difficulty by which he was occupied at the time when their acquaintance commenced, and which had been proposed to him as an exercise by the celebrated Dr. Simson.”

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

  • Palmerston was his class-fellow under Professor Dugald Stewart.

    The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

  • This proceeding greatly irritated the Fifth, who had hoped at least to make their class-fellow smart while they had the opportunity.

    The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • There was nothing more than this to be said, assuredly, to prove the disgust of the Fifth at the conduct of their class-fellow.

    The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • The two friends, however, held very little intercourse with their new class-fellow, and Oliver never once referred to the eight pounds; and, like every one and everything else, Loman grew accustomed to the idea of being his rival's debtor, and, as the days went on, ceased to be greatly troubled by the fact at all.

    The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • But the delay was more on account of pride than because they still considered their old class-fellow a knave.

    The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Thereupon, with characteristic energy, he devoted his forced leisure from professional pursuits to a year of student life at Edinburgh, where, in 1802, Lord Palmerston was his class-fellow under Professor Dugald Stewart.

    The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane Cochrane, Thomas 1869

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