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class·mate

 (klăs′māt′)
n.
A member of the same class at school.
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classmate

(ˈklɑːsˌmeɪt)
n
(Education) a friend or contemporary of the same class in a school, college, etc
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class•mate

(ˈklæsˌmeɪt, ˈklɑs-)

n.
a member of the same class at a school or college.
[1705–15, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.classmate - an acquaintance that you go to school withclassmate - an acquaintance that you go to school with
acquaintance, friend - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
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Translations
زَميل الصَّفزَمِيل الفَصْل
spolužák
klassekammerat
luokkatoveri
kolega iz razreda
osztálytárs
bekkjarfélagi
同級生
동급생
sošolec
klasskamrat
เพื่อนร่วมชั้นเรียน
bạn cùng lớp

classmate

[ˈklɑːsmeɪt] N (Brit) → compañero/a m/f de clase, condiscípulo/a m/f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

classmate

[ˈklɑːsmeɪt] ncamarade mf de classeclass president n (US)chef m de classe
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

classmate

[ˈklɑːsˌmeɪt] ncompagno/a di classe
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

class

(klaːs) plural ˈclasses noun
1. a group of people or things that are alike in some way. The dog won first prize in its class in the dog show.
2. (the system according to which people belong to) one of a number of economic/social groups. the upper class; the middle class; the working class; (also adjective) the class system.
3. a grade or rank (of merit). musicians of a high class.
4. a number of students or scholars taught together. John and I are in the same class.
5. a school lesson or college lecture etc. a French class.
6. (American) a course or series of lectures, often leading to an examination.
verb
to regard as being of a certain type. He classes all women as stupid.
ˈclassmate noun
a pupil in the same school class.
ˈclass-room noun
a room in a school where a class is taught.
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classmate

زَمِيل الفَصْل spolužák klassekammerat Mitschüler συμμαθητής compañero de clase luokkatoveri camarade de classe kolega iz razreda compagno di classe 同級生 동급생 klasgenoot klassekamerat kolega z klasy colega de classe одноклассник klasskamrat เพื่อนร่วมชั้นเรียน sınıf arkadaşı bạn cùng lớp 同班同学
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References in classic literature ?
He had been a classmate of Bowen Tyler at college, and a fraternity brother, and before, that he had been an impoverished and improvident cow-puncher on one of the great Tyler ranches.
Is it possible that you are Phoebe Pyncheon, only child of my dear cousin and classmate, Arthur?
Babcock himself really knew as little about the bad, in any quarter of the world, as a nursing infant, his most vivid realization of evil had been the discovery that one of his college classmates, who was studying architecture in Paris had a love affair with a young woman who did not expect him to marry her.
However, the classmates living in Chester will continue meeting for lunch the third Thursday of each month, and any classmate who is visiting their hometown would be welcome to join them.
Twenty of we classmates stood in silence for the ten who had passed away.
The boy claimed his classmates, allegedly led by the girl he threatened, bullied him since he stepped in the school last month.
FOR the first time in 50 years, my high-school classmates and I met in our hometown in Bangar, La Union, to celebrate our golden jubilee.
Tribune Online gathered on Tuesday that the girl, whose name could not be ascertained as of press time, spilt the beans when one of her classmates preached the Gospel to her.
The Caddo Hills School District's Facebook page narrated that its senior high school student Tanner Wilson surprised his classmate Brandon Qualls with the wheelchair, as posted last Wednesday, Feb.
In a similar incident that took place in November 2017, a four-year-old girl alleged that her classmate assaulted her in school in India's capital New Delhi.
After the exact location of the classmate's house was confirmed by the caller, police broke in to find smoke permeating the house, the release said.