RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious school mean? 

• RELIGIOUS SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a school run by a religious body

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A school run by a religious body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("religious school" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious school"):

madrasa; madrasah (Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan)

pesantran; pesantren (a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad)

church school; parochial school (a private religious school run by a church or parish)

seminary (a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis)