schoolfellow

English

Etymology

From school +‎ fellow.

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Noun

schoolfellow (plural schoolfellows)

1. Synonym of schoolmate: a student at the same school.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →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.”