Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A companion or associate in one's school.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of either sex who attends the same school; a school companion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pupil who attends the same school as another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who attended the same school.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an acquaintance that you go to school with

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Examples

  • However, Cappelletti recalled a schoolmate, Stephano Aluffi, who carried the name of a noble family.

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  • Speaking as a schoolmate of Bill O'Reilly's from his later days at Chaminade High, I implore him now to confess his sins and seek absolution for killing the NPR career of Juan Williams.

    Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins Rory O'Connor 2010

  • "Soda and some gum," adds Shatera Della, her friend and schoolmate.

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  • - When Barry Beach was convicted of murder in 1984 for the killing of a female schoolmate, Miami Vice was a hit TV show.

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  • She attended all her dances and all her picnics over again; went through her school days, recalling the face and name and seat of every schoolmate; endured the gray bleakness of the years in the orphan asylum; revisioned every memory of her mother, every tale; and relived all her life with Billy.

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  • They reacted to the crisis with a masterstroke, using the Bradford League veteran and Dewsbury businessman Solly Adam, who had recruited India's Vinod Kambli to play for Spen Victoria, to approach Kambli's schoolmate Tendulkar to fill the void.

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  • One of the ladies mentioned running into an old schoolmate of mine who was part of the misinformed schoolyard troika of way-back-then.

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  • Speaking as a schoolmate of Bill's from his later days at Chaminade High, I implore him now to confess his sins and seek absolution for killing the NPR career of Juan Williams.

    Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins Rory O'Connor 2010

  • Because in this 1974 made-for-TV shocker, Ronald is a teenager (one in dire need of a shower) who was hidden away in a spare room of a house after accidentally killing a schoolmate.

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  • Speaking as a schoolmate of Bill's from his later days at Chaminade High, I implore him now to confess his sins and seek absolution for killing the NPR career of Juan Williams.

    Rory O'Connor: Bill O'Reilly: Juan Williams Died for Your Sins Rory O 2010

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