Schoolfriend

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A friend from one's school.

    "I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains."

  2. 2
    a friend who attends the same school wordnet

Example

More examples

"I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains."

Etymology

From school + friend.

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