PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A private religious school run by a church or parish

Synonyms:

church school; parochial school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

religious school (a school run by a religious body)

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

Catholic school (a parochial school maintained by the Catholic Church)

Credits