schoolfellow
(ˈskuːlfɛləʊ)
[f. school n.1 + fellow n.]
One who is or formerly was at the same school at the same time with another.
In early use sometimes applied to one's contemporary at a university.
| 1440 Sir R. Laidamis Let. in Athenæum (1864) 10 Sept. 340/2 Ye and Y where scollfelaus sumtyme at Hylmyster. 1551 Robinson More's Utopia Epist. (1895) 19 The old acquayntaunce, that was betwene you and me in the time of our childhode, being then scolefellowes togethers. 1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Convers. i. (1586) 11 A Gentleman sometime my Schoolefellowe at Pad. who in learning was not inferiour to anie Scholler in the Uniuersitie. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 202 (1604 Qo.) My two Schoolefellowes. 1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 425 Mr. Vernon, who was a schoolfellow of mine. 1690 Locke Educ. §70 (1699) 97 The emulation of Schoolfellows often puts Life and Industry into young Lads. 1783 Cowper Valediction 35 Thy schoolfellow, and partner of thy plays. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xlix, The Colonel's countenance..wore as many blushes as the face of a boy of sixteen assumes when he is confronted with his sister's schoolfellows. |
Hence school-fellowship.
| 1722 Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 628 It seems there are some secret remains of what we call school-fellowship, that have led him to a better opinion of my book than it deserves. 1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 128 Who was perhaps bound to him by what is often the closer and stronger tie of school-fellowship. |