What's the difference between schoolfellow and schoolmate?
Schoolfellow
Definition:
(n.) One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scholastic incidents at nursery school happen prevalently in court on the occasion of recreation activities for falling from a play equipment, at primary school in schoolroom or in corridor on the occasion of recreation for push of schoolfellow, at secondary school in palaestra during time of physical education for falling or traumatic contact with the ball.
(2) He was sent to Haileybury school, and kept loosely in touch with a handful of his bright schoolfellows.
Schoolmate
Definition:
(n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the boys 83.5% and of the girls 86.5% usually smoked with friends or schoolmates.
(2) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(3) That was a very funny memory that’s lived with me forever.” She also bought him the “rudest” cards, which he was embarrassed to open in front of his schoolmates.
(4) His 1990 BBC play Old Flames starred Stephen Fry and Simon Callow as former schoolmates who find themselves sucked into a vortex of anonymous persecution.
(5) Outcomes included measures of attitudes, familiarity with disabled schoolmates, self-esteem, and parental attitude.
(6) So meeting my schoolmates again was quite an experience.
(7) Outside his house, an old schoolmate of one of the fighters expressed his shock.
(8) Photograph: PA Another SNP member, Chris Law, read out a harrowing account of a Hiroshima survivor talking about witnessing her schoolmates die.
(9) "They give money to children to recruit schoolmates – once you have two children, the whole school is gone," he said in an interview.
(10) Most black peers they’ve ever known – say, schoolmates they knew when they were kids – will likely be six feet under while they’re still breathing on this earth.
(11) Everything changed with Carrie , the story of a telekinetic teenager and her sublime rage at her fundamentalist mother and bullying schoolmates.
(12) Telling the story of a shy young girl with telekinetic powers who suffers emotional abuse from schoolmates and family, it is a production with a notoriously chequered past.
(13) Eight-year-olds were substantially better at identifying ungrammatical forms than were their younger schoolmates.
(14) People are getting revenge, and they are just getting started,” said Quatiarra Bonaparte, a 14-year-old schoolmate of some of those involved.
(15) The study indicates that interaction between schoolmates and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships are important determinants of risk of injury at school.
(16) In order to analyse the importance of schoolmate interactions and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships for the occurrence of injuries at school a case-control study was carried out in 1986 in the comprehensive schools of Linköping.
(17) Poole, in Dorset, recorded the worst performance by disadvantaged pupils, with just 53% reaching the expected pass mark in reading, writing and maths – compared with 78% of their schoolmates.
(18) David Cameron has welcomed his former Etonian schoolmate's proposed return to the Commons, saying he needed his star players on the pitch in the run up to the election.
(19) Hundreds of Luke’s family, friends and schoolmates went to Flinders Christian Community College on Friday morning to pay their respects.
(20) Pablo's cousin, Jaime Gaviria, and his old schoolmate, "El Chino", told us of the early days of the cocaine trade.