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Definition of Classmate
1. Noun. An acquaintance that you go to school with.
Definition of Classmate
1. n. One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Definition of Classmate
1. Noun. Someone who is in the same class (in school) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Classmate
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Classmate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1874)
"TRIBUTE TO A COLLEGE classmate. REMARKS ON THE LATE JOHN W. BROWNE, AUGUST 20, 1860.
MR. BROWNE died suddenly, May 1st, 1860. A little volume was printed in ..."
2. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"... Hartford.i Philip Freneau was of Huguenot stock and was born in New York in
1752, and graduated at Princeton in 1771, a classmate of James Madison. ..."
3. Reminiscences of a War-time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915 by Frederick W[illiam] Seward (1916)
"A College classmate. In the freshman class at Union College in 1845, Daniel
Butterfield and I were the youngest members. We were friends all through our ..."
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1884)
"I;>.ii.ut from u Loiter tu u classmate. — School-Teaching. ... He writes in 1823
to a classmate who had gone from Harvard to Andover: — " I am delighted to ..."
5. Life in a New England Town: 1787, 1788: Diary of John Quincy Adams, While a by John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1903)
"This forenoon, I took a ride with Mr. Shaw,8 to see my classmate Welch,4 who
lives about four miles from hence. After I return'd, I called in, ..."