schoolfellow
English
Noun
schoolfellow (plural schoolfellows)
- Synonym of schoolmate: a student at the same school.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 48:
- My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency.
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
- “You listened to what your two schoolfellows were saying about you.”
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