class fellow vs class mate

Both of them are correct phrases, but 'classmate' is more commonly used in English. 'Class fellow' is more commonly used in Indian English. Both phrases refer to a person who is in the same class as someone else.

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class fellow

'Class fellow' is a correct phrase, but it is less commonly used in English compared to 'classmate'.

This phrase is used to refer to a person who is in the same class as someone else.

Examples:

He is my class fellow.
She is a good class fellow.

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He used to be Rohit's class-fellow.
It was a kind of success that my parents and teachers could appreciate, if not my fellow class mates.
After all they were tenth class boys and, though you may not believe this, they all got up and said, "Bhagavan, we will discuss on the topic, 'Science and Spirituality'." Tenth class fellows!
In addition to air-conditioned classrooms, Internet café and WiFi connection, our school has an extensive garden with palm trees - the perfect place to relax after class with fellow students!
The class of national fellows has 40 ordinary members and a variable number of supernumerary members.
She was top of her class in law school, and she's an academic fellow for the united nations.
The dockside congratulations reserved for Soriano from fellow Mini Maxi owners demonstrated that while the Class is about tough, competitive racing on the water, a gentlemanly spirit punctuates rivalries.
And so, fellow students... when you cast your vote for class president keep me in mind.
And this little fellow right here, he is now the President of his student class.
These children would suffer the humiliation of being evicted from their class or school because they are seen as being different from their fellow pupils.
So not only is this fellow not a petty officer of any class.
But, endowed with a superior intelligence, Hermann soon placed himself at the head of his class, well-regarded by his teachers and his fellow students.
Avrial belongs to the International Workers' Association, striving for working class led cooperative projects with fellow workers during the siege.
It is from that regional perspective that Croatia needs to be the best in the class now, so that its fellow classmates can join afterwards.
She and her seven crew - among them fellow youth solo round the world sailor, Britain's Mike Perham - raced in the Sydney 38 class aboard the pink hulled Ella Baché Another Challenge.
Teacher Song Kang Yi's class is pulling the whole school down, especially this few fellows -
Near perfect MCAT score, top five of your graduating class, chief resident during your training, lead fellow, board certified trauma surgeon and head of one of the busiest ers in New York City for almost a decade.
Nonetheless, every week, I see my fellow Members, from all the parties, travelling business class, including on the flight to Portugal that followed that vote; there are a few rare exceptions, not of individual members, but on some sporadic journeys.
In 1824 he became an official Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Turin in the class of Physical Sciences and Mathematics.
'Unlike my fellow vendors, I don't go to working-class pubs,'

Alternatives:

classmate
schoolmate
fellow student
class companion
class peer

class mate

'Classmate' is the more commonly used term in English to refer to a person who is in the same class as someone else.

This phrase is widely used to refer to a person who is in the same class as someone else.