schoolfellow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolfellow
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at school 1, fellow
Example Sentences
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What was my astonishment on responding personally to his convulsive "b'bang," to recognize under the gold-banded hat and red-collared coat of that peripatetic official the gentlemanly figure and features of my old schoolfellow Griffith Maclean!
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Miss Jenkins, the novelist's schoolfellow, and Mrs. John Cash, also generously afforded me every assistance in their power.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
In the eyes of her schoolfellow she was the model of all human excellence.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
“I’m sure it’s very kind of ye to think so well o’ your schoolfellow, but I’m no’ so sure.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
It is commonly, but as I think, hastily, supposed that a child's love of her doll is the same affection which will be fixed hereafter on a schoolfellow, on her parents, and on suffering fellow-creatures.
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
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