RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)