A fellow student in the same class; esp. in U.S. colleges, a member of the same graduation class: see CLASS 3 b.
1862. [see CLASS-DAY].
1866. Harvard Mem. Biog., I. 333. A classmate whos at next him for four years.
1875. Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus, 106. And now my class-mates; ye remaining few That number not the half of those we knew.
1878. Hopps, Princ. Relig., x. 31. A boy who gets laughed at by his class-mates for making mistakes.
1886. J. Quincy, in Holmes, Life Emerson, 45. Only two of my classmates can be fairly said to have got into history.
