Definition of Schoolfellow

1. Noun. An acquaintance that you go to school with.

Exact synonyms: Class Fellow, Classmate, Schoolmate
Generic synonyms: Acquaintance, Friend

Definition of Schoolfellow

1. n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school.

Definition of Schoolfellow

1. Noun. someone who goes to the same school; a schoolmate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schoolfellow

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schoolfellow

schoolbus
schoolbuses
schoolchild
schoolchildren
schooldame
schooldames
schoolday
schooldays
schoole
schooled
schooler
schooleries
schoolers
schoolery
schooles
schoolfellow (current term)
schoolfellows
schoolfriend
schoolfriends
schoolgirl
schoolgirlish
schoolgirlishly
schoolgirls
schoolgirly
schoolgoer
schoolgoers
schoolgoing
schoolhouse
schoolhouses
schoolie

Literary usage of Schoolfellow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"We have here, with the same fun and animal spirits, a little of the proneness to mischief which his other schoolfellow says he was free from; ..."

2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"We have here, with the same fun and animal spirits, a little of the proneness to mischief which his other schoolfellow says he was free from; ..."

3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"There was another person who had certainly shewn more inclination to remember past obligations. Mr. Crawford had been a schoolfellow of an opulent ..."

4. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"THE NEW schoolfellow. IT was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school—a day quite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny. ..."

5. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1920)
"CHAPTER III THE NEW schoolfellow It was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; ..."

6. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"THE NEW schoolfellow. IT was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; a day quite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny. ..."

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