schoolfellow

American  

[skool-fel-oh] / ˈskulˌfɛl oʊ /

noun

1. a schoolmate.

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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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schoolfellow

The desire in after life to meet with an old schoolfellow is seldom prompted by a higher motive than a curiosity to learn his success in the world.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

For thick as thieves now were Edward Garden and Tudor Williams, and to their frequent councils was admitted also Raymond Briggs, the architect, whose son had been John Willie's schoolfellow at Pannal.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

Vespucci speaks of him as having been his schoolfellow, and as being, at the time the letter was written, in a high official position at Florence.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

He was greatly struck with the change in Venturita, the child he had seen skipping to school on the arm of a schoolfellow.

From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

The scene will be recalled in which Montjoye, the positivist, laughs at the enthusiastic Saladin, his old schoolfellow, who remained poor through having retained his illusions, his belief in mankind.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin