SCHOOLFELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolfellow mean? 

• SCHOOLFELLOW (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLFELLOW has 1 sense:

1. an acquaintance that you go to school with

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLFELLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLFELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acquaintance that you go to school with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

class fellow; classmate; schoolfellow; schoolmate

Hypernyms ("schoolfellow" is a kind of...):

acquaintance; friend (a person with whom you are acquainted)

 Context examples 

“In case you do,” said I, “pray say that I am sorry he was not here today, as an old schoolfellow of his was here.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Geneva.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her kind, compassionate visits to this old schoolfellow, sick and reduced, seemed to have quite delighted Mr Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Your old schoolfellow, Percy Phelps.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This question answered, as it readily was, the stranger pronounced hers to be Thorpe; and Mrs. Allen immediately recognized the features of a former schoolfellow and intimate, whom she had seen only once since their respective marriages, and that many years ago.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I made my way to Mr. Waterbrook, and said, that I believed I had the pleasure of seeing an old schoolfellow there.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were only asked, she was sure, because Lady Dalrymple being kept at home by a bad cold, was glad to make use of the relationship which had been so pressed on her; and she declined on her own account with great alacrity—She was engaged to spend the evening with an old schoolfellow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And I cannot help avowing that this was the first occasion on which I really did justice to the clear head, and the plain, patient, practical good sense, of my old schoolfellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were not much interested in anything relative to Anne; but still there were questions enough asked, to make it understood what this old schoolfellow was; and Elizabeth was disdainful, and Sir Walter severe.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)