classman

English

Etymology

class +‎ -man

Noun

classman (plural classmen)

  1. A member of a class; a classmate.
  2. (Britain, Oxford University slang) A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honour class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.

Derived terms
  • classmanship

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for classman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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