classmate

noun

class·​mate ˈklas-ˌmāt How to pronounce classmate (audio)
: a member of the same class in a school or college

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Stay in touch with your high school or college classmates, colleagues, and former bosses. Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 Levi’s law school classmate saw the post, thought the symptoms sounded familiar and told her friend, Sam’s mom, Susannah Rosenblatt, who contacted Berger. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025 While her daughter sometimes runs alone with classmates and under the supervision of school coaches, at-home runs are a different matter. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025 One of Willy’s notable Harvard stories involved taking a psychology class from Timothy Leary, along with his classmate Ted Kaczynski, in which Willy and the sixteen-year-old future Unabomber voluntarily participated in Leary’s early experiments with LSD. Benjamin Hale june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for classmate

Word History

First Known Use

1713, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of classmate was in 1713

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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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classmate

noun
class·​mate ˈklas-ˌmāt How to pronounce classmate (audio)
: a member of the same class in a school or college

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