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# schoolfriend

«schoolfriend» in Mova's school dictionary: **A friend you know from school, especially one in your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a schoolfriend, schoolfriends)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A friend you know from school, especially one in your class or year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#m1)

2) (adult use) An old friend from your schooldays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life children play with schoolfriends after school and invite them to parties. Adults meet «old schoolfriends» years later. In maths: «Mia invites 8 schoolfriends; each gets 3 balloons». Phrases: «an old schoolfriend», «schoolfriends' party».

### examples

- I invited five schoolfriends to my party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x1)
- Dad met an old schoolfriend at the shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x2)
- My schoolfriend Kai lives near the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x3)
- We walk home with our schoolfriends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x4)
- Each of 6 schoolfriends brought 2 snacks — 12 in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x5)
- She writes to her schoolfriend in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/#x6)

### note

Countable: schoolfriends. Also written «school friend» (two words, more common in the US). Similar: classmate (in the same class), schoolmate.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «schoolfriend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolfriend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.