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View synonyms for schoolmate

schoolmate

[ skool-meyt ]

noun

  1. a companion or associate at school.


schoolmate

/ ˈskuːlˌmeɪt /

noun

  1. a companion at school; fellow pupil


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Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolmate1

First recorded in 1555–65; school 1 + mate 1

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Example Sentences

No matter whether you are talking to a family member, a schoolmate, or a colleague, WeChat is the only way to go.

The book begins in the 1960s and then trades perspectives among Thula’s family members and a collective chorus of her schoolmates to tell the story of the next 40 years of struggle.

Nevertheless, she didn’t let the negative comments from her schoolmates keep her down.

Later, Shuler invokes the death of a schoolmate who hanged himself.

In a segment designed to congratulate a jock for befriending an autistic schoolmate, Kathie writes a song called “All Alone.”

Laura and her passenger, schoolmate Judy Dykes, were both treated at the local hospital for their own bruises.

My new-found old schoolmate had become the financial manager of a great business house having ramifications throughout the world.

As a friend and schoolmate, Tchaikovsky displayed the same qualities which distinguished him as a child at Votinsk.

Can that be Bart Hodge, my schoolmate, chum, and comrade of Fardale?

We see cases in which a child tries to help the beloved schoolmate in every possible difficulty or trouble.

This was Teresa Maldo, the lovely half-Spanish girl who had been her favourite schoolmate at the convent over the hill.

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