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Sunday school en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.
   • It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty. 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
   • PRIMROSE CHAPEL DEDICATION. Primrose Chapel was organized 54 years ago. Those who organized it and stood faithfully by it in its infancy have nearly all passed to their heavenly reward. The old frame building served well its day and generation, but it had grown insufficient in capacity to accommodate the crowds that attended there regularly. A new and a larger church was badly needed. The new church is a brick veneer with a seating capacity of about three hundred. It is considered to be one of the finest rural churches in this State. It is lighted with a Delco and in all it cost about $7,000. It has a membership of 137, a Sunday school of 80, an Epworth League [chapter] of 93, and a wide-awake Ladies' Aid. 1921 November 3, “News of the churches [column]”, in Arkansas Methodist, volume 40, number 43, page 14:
   • Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools." 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:

Forms

Coordinates

madrassah · Sabbath school

Translations (20)

nrf êcole du Dînmanche (religious school providing education on Sundays) · cmn 主日學 /主日学 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · sw shule ya Jumapili (religious school providing education on Sundays) · fi pyhäkoulu (religious school providing education on Sundays) · nan-hbl 主日學校 /主日学校 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · ga scoil Domhnaigh (religious school providing education on Sundays) · el κατηχητικό (religious school providing education on Sundays) · sv söndagsskola (religious school providing education on Sundays) · ja 教会学校 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · gu સાબાથ શાળા (religious school providing education on Sundays) · nl zondagsschool (religious school providing education on Sundays) · hu vasárnapi iskola (religious school providing education on Sundays) · nan-hbl 主日學 /主日学 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · yue 主日學 /主日学 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · et pühapäevakool (religious school providing education on Sundays) · ja 日曜学校 (religious school providing education on Sundays) · id sekolah Minggu (religious school providing education on Sundays) · fr écodim (religious school providing education on Sundays) · fr école du dimanche (religious school providing education on Sundays) · de Sonntagsschule (religious school providing education on Sundays)