classmates

noun

plural of classmate
as in colleagues
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 classmates Berger Ziauddin says at the end of the week, kids present their drawings to their classmates. — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026 The introspective movie centers on four classmates setting out to find the body of a boy who went missing in the woods. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, a serial killer is haunting the streets of Los Angeles and targeting their classmates. — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 And their classmates who didn’t show up to school because their parents were afraid of being stopped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026 Rubio approached the Sacramento City Unified School District Board about the lack of heat illness awareness in schools and her concern for her fellow classmates. — Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026 How will my child handle new routines, unfamiliar classmates or unexpected changes? — Jennifer Durocher, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026 His ability to spin stories about the Trawler means that he is destabilized by the crimes in a way that his classmates aren’t. — Leo Lasdun, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026 Burke then allegedly visited Lake Elsinore and paid one of her classmates $1,000 to slip her a secret phone. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for classmates
  1. colleagues
  2. peers
  3. teammates
  4. friends
Noun
  • In interviews, colleagues and friends have painted the portrait of Galliano before his downfall as a brilliant designer as well as an incorrigible drunk who trashed hotel rooms.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, Gabler and her colleagues wanted to know more about the composition of the slime of a particular kind of terrestrial species that's native to central Europe, called Cepaea nemoralis, or the brown-lipped snail.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of colleagues
Noun
  • In July, Peyton became the first Black woman to ever chair the Jackson County Legislature after former Chair Manny Abarca was removed by a vote of his peers.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The key to it is to give these kids an opportunity in the summer to be with their peers and not have to conform to always having to do hard things.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of peers
Noun
  • All these guys, all my teammates, all my coaches, everybody in this building loves it.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Hafley came up with his point guard comparison months ago after watching film of Sieler repeatedly setting up his teammates for sack or, phrased more appropriately, dishing out assists to his teammates.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of teammates
Noun
  • The finale underlines that break in its final scenes, cross-cutting between the former friends as Alicent makes her first and only appearance in the episode at the exact moment the full tragedy of Rhaenyra’s upper hand becomes apparent.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • For decades, the Skyline Cinema in Dillon, Colorado has been one of the few places Summit County families go to watch the latest movie, teenagers go for their first jobs, and friends go to spend a few hours together.
    — Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of friends

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