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schoolfriend

schoolfriend noun: a friend from one's school.

Noun

schoolfriend (plural schoolfriends)

  1. A friend from one's school.
    • I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458

Forms of schoolfriend

pluralschoolfriends

Origin of schoolfriend

From school + friend.

Questions about schoolfriend

What does schoolfriend mean?
Schoolfriend means a friend from one's school.
What part of speech is schoolfriend?
Schoolfriend is a noun.
What is the plural of schoolfriend?
The plural of schoolfriend is schoolfriends.

Words near schoolfriend in the dictionary

  1. schoolfellow
  2. schoolfellows
  3. schoolfellowship
  4. Schoolfield
  5. Schoolfields
  6. schoolfriend
  7. schoolfriends
  8. schoolful
  9. schoolfuls
  10. schoolgirl
  11. schoolgirl pin

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