Schoolmate

Definition: Schoolmate

Schoolmate

Noun

1. An acquaintance that you go to school with.

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)

Context	Synonyms 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.

Domain	Title
High Tech	SCHOOLMATE EDUCATIONAL SOL (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
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.

"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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "schoolmate": ex-schoolmate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

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), � �友 (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.

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).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "schoolmate" (pronounced skuw"lmā't)
4	-l m ā' t	stalemate.
3	-m ā' t	acclimate, amalgamate, automate, checkmate, classmate, decimate, dichromate, glutamate, inmate, overestimate, playmate, primate, roommate, shipmate, teammate, underestimate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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.
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