"Sunday school" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Sunday schools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Sunday school (countable and uncountable, plural Sunday schools)
  1. A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays. Tags: countable, uncountable Coordinate_terms: madrassah, Sabbath school Translations (religious school providing education on Sundays): 主日學 /主日学 (chú-ji̍t-o̍h) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 主日學校 /主日学校 (Chú-ji̍t ha̍k-hāu) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 主日學 /主日学 (zyu² jat⁶ hok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 主日學 /主日学 (zhǔrìxué) (Chinese Mandarin), zondagsschool [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), pühapäevakool (Estonian), pyhäkoulu (Finnish), école du dimanche [feminine] (French), écodim [feminine] (French), Sonntagsschule [feminine] (German), κατηχητικό (katichitikó) [neuter] (Greek), સાબાથ શાળા (sābāth śāḷā) (Gujarati), vasárnapi iskola (Hungarian), sekolah Minggu (Indonesian), scoil Domhnaigh [feminine] (Irish), 日曜学校 (nichiyō gakkō) (alt: にちようがっこう) (Japanese), 教会学校 (kyōkai gakkō) (alt: きょうかいがっこう) (Japanese), êcole du Dînmanche [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), shule ya Jumapili (Swahili), söndagsskola [common-gender] (Swedish)

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