schoolfellow

[ skool-fel-oh ]

noun

1. a schoolmate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolfellow¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; school ¹, fellow

Example Sentences

It was a trouble to her to say good-bye to her schoolfellows and friends, and cross the seas to a new home in England.

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Though he had to some extent confided in myself, he forbade me to speak of him to my schoolfellows.

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Young people, who are so ready to keep up a sense of wrong, and wait an opportunity of paying back your schoolfellows, study this example of David.

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So far the opera has been an exclusively masculine affair, but Yum-Yum now arrives escorted by a bevy of dainty schoolfellows, who sing of their "Wondering what the world can be."

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Not that he repented of what he had done, for the ill in itself, or from a better feeling towards his schoolfellow; but he feared the consequences.

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