Other forms: schoolmates
A schoolmate is somebody who goes to the same school as you. An old schoolmate, my schoolmates, meet a schoolmate.
It says nothing about friendship, only about sharing a school, which is what separates it from friend. Classmate is narrower and means the same class rather than the same school.
1nounschoolmateSomebody who goes to the same school as you.
“He ran into an old schoolmate on the platform at Crewe.”
schoolmate is a person.
Proto-Indo-European
*seǵʰ- — to hold, have, possess
Ancient Greek
σχολή — spare time, leisure
Latin
schola
Proto-West Germanic
*skōlu
Old English
scōl — place of education
Middle English
scole
English
school
English, today
schoolmate
Built from
From school + -mate. school comes from Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic skōlu, from Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (“spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). a doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, stq Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”). Influenced in some senses by schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (“victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA