PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)