schoolmate
[f. school n.1 + mate n.2]
A friend or companion at school.
| 1563 Homilies II. Place & Time of Prayer i. 141 Shewe you to be like them, whose schole mates you take vppon you to be, that is, the Apostles and Disciples of Christ. 1810 Sporting Mag. XXXV. 303 One of her school-mates, who was priding herself over the rest of the scholars. 1894 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (1900) 206 They had been playmates and schoolmates..as long as they could remember. |