schoolmates

noun

plural of schoolmate
1
as in classmates

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as in schoolfellows

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmates
  1. classmates
  2. students
  3. teammates
  4. undergraduates
  5. colleagues
  6. readers
  7. roommates
  8. pupils
Noun
  • Alison Linder, assistant sustainability coordinator at Occidental College, which has a thrift store of its own with Halloween costumes in stock, encouraged people to organize their own swaps with neighbors, friends or school classmates.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • On Saturday nights after performing at the opera, all 25 ballet classmates would end up back at a friend’s house for a sleepover.
    — Remy Rippon, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of classmates
Noun
  • The students' message during the campaign focused on a nonpartisan effort to rebuild Serbia's economy and restore its democracy.
    — JOVANA GEC, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Serbians are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that is seen as a showdown between the Balkan country's populist leader Aleksandar Vucic and a movement of university students who led protests against him for almost two years.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of students
Noun
  • His hands hovered waist high, eyes watching the downturning arcs of his teammates’ shots, waiting for a pass that never came.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The fact that Haslem became a mentor for Adebayo and developed a close friendship with him during their six seasons as Heat teammates will make the moment especially meaningful.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of teammates
Noun
  • Visas and a subpoena Nearly half of Caltech’s graduate students, 46%, come from abroad, along with 16% of undergraduates.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Atlantic analysis that found over 20% of undergraduates at Harvard and Brown are registered as disabled, while Amherst has 34% and Stanford close to 40%.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of undergraduates
Noun
  • Using layer-by-layer atomic deposition, professors Seongshik Oh, Hee Taek Yi, and their colleagues created flawless crystalline films just 40 nanometers thick—roughly a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Raman’s colleagues on the City Council have trashed her like bullies out of a boarding school novel.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of colleagues
Noun
  • Here’s a quick guide to the stories local readers should catch up on.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • When Vogue first put Kim on the cover, readers canceled their subscriptions.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of readers
Noun
  • Kaylee Goncalves also felt as though she was being watched and stalked in the weeks before she was murdered alongside two of her roommates and one roommate's boyfriend.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of roommates
Noun
  • In each of the future belligerent countries, elite schools would have long regarded it as their duty to instill in their pupils, the officer class in the making, a martial spirit.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Fear, by contrast, is linked to the sympathetic nervous system, which dilates the pupils.
    — Gabriela Galvin, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of pupils
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