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school mate

school mate is the alternative spelling of schoolmate.

Meaning of schoolmate

Noun

schoolmate (plural schoolmates)

  1. A person who was a fellow attendee at one's school.
    • I've lost touch with all my old schoolmates: I only see them at class reunions.
  2. (broadly) A schoolfriend; a friend from one's school.

Forms of school mate

pluralschool mates

Questions about school mate

What is school mate the alternative spelling of?
School mate is the alternative spelling of schoolmate.

Words near school mate in the dictionary

  1. school inspector
  2. school inspectors
  3. school life
  4. school marm
  5. school marms
  6. school mate
  7. school mates
  8. school meal
  9. school meals
  10. school night
  11. school nights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: school mate (page history and authors); schoolmate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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