PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parochial school mean? 

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

1. a private religious school run by a church or parish

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAROCHIAL SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A private religious school run by a church or parish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

church school; parochial school

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)