classmaten.
/ˈklɑːsmeɪt/, /ˈklasmeɪt/, U.S. /ˈklæsˌmeɪt/ A fellow member of a class at school, college, or university; (North American) a member of the same graduation class.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > those taught by same master > fellow pupil or disciple
condisciple1554
book mate1598
class-fellow1712
classmate1713
deskmate1850
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > fellow-student
fellow collegiate1616
fellow collegian1630
class-fellow1712
classmate1713
1713 S. Sewall Diary 5 June (1973) II. 718 He had spoken for my Classmate Capt. Saml Phips.
1776 A. R. Robbins Jrnl. (1850) 27 Came..to Lanesborough at night, cordially received by my dear classmate [at Yale].
1793 W. Bentley Diary Aug. (1907) II. 47 On this road I met my class mate Crosby from Charlestown.
1796 T. Robbins Diary (1886) I. 6 My classmate Romeyn primus, was, I hear, quite unwell.
1851 W. Flagg Let. 1 Mar. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 147 A sophomore was ‘smoked out’ by his class mates last night for a lack of cleanliness in the recitation room he occupied. It is thought he deserved it.
1878 J. P. Hopps Princ. Relig. x. 31 A boy who gets laughed at by his class-mates for making mistakes.
1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years xix. 291 Sheldon..had been a classmate of President Wilson at Princeton (class of '79).
1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. i. 33 My classmates were sort of standoffish. But there was a black girl, Marguerite DeSleet. She treated me like an ordinary person.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald 21 Nov. 28/5 A 12-year-old schoolgirl was victimised by a classmate who set up a website and encouraged others to use it to abuse her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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