batchmate
English
Etymology
Noun
batchmate (plural batchmates)
- (India) classmate
- (chiefly South Asia, Philippines) A member of the same graduation school class as another.[1]
- 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 78:
- He and several of his medical school batchmates were helping, he explained.
- (chiefly South Asia, Philippines) A member of a batch.
References
- ^ “batchmate, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.