Thesaurus results for CLASSMATE

classmate

noun

as in colleague

a member of the same class in a school, college, or university She was widely regarded as the most likely to succeed among her classmates.

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Recent Examples of classmate While classmates spent their free time elsewhere, Brower spent years immersed in nature content, animal care and YouTube itself. —

Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026 Yet, during my Indiana college years, I was never allowed by classmates to claim Chicago as home (though frat boys from Highland Park or Hinsdale — much further commutes — got away with that move). —

Gretchen Kalwinski, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026 Our antennae immediately switch up when Hannah starts getting closer to one of her Act One classmates, Henry (Nate Mann), handsome and a little bit older. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 June 2026 The athletes argue they should be treated at least as well as their work-study classmates, some of whom are on scholarships and are paid to work at games (such as in concessions or at the ticket counter). —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for classmate

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Noun

Meanwhile, with Anas forced into hiding, a colleague who worked with him on the documentary, Amad Hussein Swali, was murdered in a shooting, a crime for which nobody has been caught.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 June 2026
My colleague Michael Scherer reported on the administration’s decision to supersede America250, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to celebrating this year’s Independence Day, with a partisan analogue, Freedom 250.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026