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RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
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I. (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)
