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Discover LudwigThe word "classmate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a person in the same class as you, as in "My classmate wrote the best essay in the class."
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classmate
noun
Student who is in the same class (in school)
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Because they know they'll be asked, if they do rat on a classmate, the kids begin to auto-correct halfway through.
Burnham's life change is signalled by body building in his garage, blaring Pink Floyd from his flash new convertible, smoking grass outside a stuffy works party and a lusty pursuit of his daughter's cheerleader classmate (Mena Suvari).
He was a high school classmate of Jeb Bush at the Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts.
According to her classmate, "there is no place to change and dispose the cloth – it is a question of putting used cloth in our pockets.
He was also a high school classmate of Jeb Bush (who also had a prominent Republican politician as a father) at the elite Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts.
Dawn Whitmore, a former classmate, remembered him as a shy and serious boy, who sported a pudding-bowl haircut and thick glasses.
His former classmate Rully Dasaad argues that it was in their shared classroom that Barry learned all about respecting religious and ethnic diversity.
He became "used to living with diversity", says another former classmate.
Henri de Castries, boss of AXA, an insurance giant, and a former university classmate of Mr de Villepin, is scathing.
Mrs Arroyo, who belongs to an opposition party and was elected directly to the vice-presidency, has a doctorate in economics and was a classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.
IT IS a strategy used by countless students down the years: identify the least able classmate and endeavour to stay ahead of him.
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