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Schoolmate

Definition: Schoolmate

Schoolmate

Noun

1. An acquaintance that you go to school with.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "schoolmate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)



Synonyms: Schoolmate

Synonyms: class fellow (n), classmate (n), schoolfellow (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Schoolmate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Friend

Schoolmate, schoolfellow; classfellow, classman, classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Schoolmate

DomainTitle

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Schoolmate

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

If your child attends school, teachers should know to inform you at once if a schoolmate develops chickenpox. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Schoolmate

"Schoolmate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schoolmate" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Schoolmate

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "schoolmate": ex-schoolmate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schoolmate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

schoolmate

10

find schoolmate

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Schoolmate

Language Translations for "schoolmate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shok shkolle (schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏زميل دراسة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съученик (classfellow, classmate, fellow, schoolfellow, stable companion), другар от училище. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

同学 (Classmate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

spolužák (class mate, classfellow, classmate, fellow student, mate, messmate, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هم مدرسه , دوست (Ally, Amicable, Chum, Friend, Leal). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

koulutoveri (schoolfellow). (various references)

   

French

  

camarade de classe. (various references)

   

German

  

schulkamerad (schoolfellow, schoolfriend, school-friend). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμμαθητήσ (class fellow, class mate, classmate, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

teman sekolah. (various references)

   

Italian

  

amico scolastico. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

同"" (alumni, alumnus), (alumnus), スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どうそうせい (alumni, alumnus), "うゆう (alumnus, companion, friend, friendship, public ownership), スクールメート . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

교우. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oolmateschay

   

Portuguese

  

condiscípulo (schoolfellow), companheiro de escola (schoolfellow), colega de escola (classmate, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

coleg de şcoalã (school mate, schoolfellow), camarad (Comrade, fellow, helpmate, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

школьный товарищ (class-fellow, schoolfellow, school-mate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

školski drug (schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

condiscípulo (chum, classmate, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skolkamrat (schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

okuldan arkadaş (schoolfellow), okul arkadaşı (brother student, fellow student, schoolfellow). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bạn học (schoolfellow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Schoolmate

Derivations

Words beginning with "schoolmate": schoolmates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Schoolmate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Escholzmatt, Schoonmaker. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Schoolmate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "schoolmate" (pronounced skuw"lmā't)
4-l m ā' tstalemate.
3-m ā' tacclimate, amalgamate, automate, checkmate, classmate, decimate, dichromate, glutamate, inmate, overestimate, playmate, primate, roommate, shipmate, teammate, underestimate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Schoolmate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: loathsome.

-2 letters: cholates, comatose, eschalot, lothsome, moschate, oothecal.

-3 letters: cahoots, calmest, camlets, chalets, cholate, clothes, coeloms, comates, coolest, coolths, hamlets, lactose, latches, loaches, loathes, locates, maltose, matches, molochs, mooches, moolahs, ocelots, ootheca, osteoma, satchel, scotoma, stomach, talcose.

-4 letters: almehs, almost, amoles, cahoot, camels, cameos, camlet, cashoo, castle, celoms, chalet, chalot, chaste, cheats, chelas, chemos, cholos, choose, cleats, cloots, closet, clothe, cloths, coelom, cohost, comate, cometh, comets, comose, comtes, coolth, costae, costal, eclats, halest, haloes, hamlet, haoles, haslet, helots, hostel, hotels, laches, lamest, lathes, loathe, locate, locoes, lotahs, maches, machos, macles, mahoes, mascot, mescal, metals, mochas, mohels, molest, moloch, moolah, moolas, motels, ocelot, osmole, osteal, sachem, sachet, samech, samlet, scathe, schema, schmoe, school, shalom, shelta, sholom, slatch, smalto, smooch, smooth, solace, solate, soothe, stomal, taches, thecal, tholes, tholos.

-5 letters: aches, achoo, acmes, alecs, almeh, almes, aloes, altho, altos, amole, ascot, atoms, calms, calos, camel, cameo, cames, caste, cates, celom, celts, cesta, chams, chaos, chase, chasm, chats, cheat, chela, chemo, chest, cholo, chose, clams, clash, clast, cleat, cloot, close, cloth, clots, coals, coast, coats, cohos, colas, coles, colts, comae, comal, comas, comes, comet, comte, cools, coots, coset, costa, cotes, echos, eclat, escot, ethos, haems, haets, hales, halms, halos, halts, hames, haole, haste, hates, heals, heats, helms, helos, helot, hemal, holes, holms, holts, homes, homos, hoots, hosel, hosta, hotel, laces, lames, latch, lathe, laths, leach, leash, least, letch, loach, loams, loath, lochs, locos, looms, loose, loots, lotah, lotas, lotos, maces, mache, macho, machs, macle, mahoe, males, malts, match, mates, maths, meals, meats, melts, metal, meths, moats, mocha, mohel, molas, moles, molto, molts, mooch, moola, mools, moose, moots, moste, motel, motes, moths, oaths, octal, oleos, osmol, satem, scale, schmo, scoot, selah, setal, shale, shalt, shame, sheal, sheol, shoal, shoat, shool, shoot, shote, slate, sloth, smalt, smelt, smolt, smote, socle, sooth, sotol, stale, steal, steam, stela, stoae, stole, stoma, stool, taces, tache, tachs, tacos, taels, talcs, tales, tames, teach, teals, teams, telos, tesla, theca, thole, those, toeas, tolas, toles, tomes, tools.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: schoolmates.

 

+2 letters: schoolmaster.

 

+3 letters: chromatolyses, commonwealths, schoolmasters.

 

+4 letters: metapsychology, monotheistical, ophthalmoscope, schoolmasterly.

 

+5 letters: collenchymatous, homosocialities, ophthalmoscopes, schoolmasterish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Schoolmate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 6D 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ....    ---    ---    .-..    --    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C 006D 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53697481817879678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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