schoolfellow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolfellow
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; school 1, fellow
Example Sentences
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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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