classmate vs pal

classmate

noun
  • A student who is in the same class at school. 

  • A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc. 

pal

verb
  • Be friends with, hang around with. 

noun
  • An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. 

  • A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. 

How often have the words classmate and pal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )