classmate

From class +‎ mate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɑːs.meɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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classmate (plural classmates)

1. A student who is in the same class at school.

   Danny and I have been classmates for five years, but I've never spoken to him outside of lessons.

   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 353:

     She was your classmate at the village school from first grade.

2. (by extension) A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc.
   • 2019 October 23, Rail, page 30:

     The Class 87 is the only main line-certified member of the fleet left in the UK, although there are 21 classmates in use overseas [...]

• → Japanese: クラスメート (kurasumēto)
• → Korean: 클래스메이트 (keullaeseumeiteu)

• coursemate
• schoolmate

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