Sunday school

English

Noun

Sunday school (countable and uncountable, plural Sunday schools)

1. A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.
   • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:

     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."

Coordinate terms

• madrassah
• Sabbath school

Translations

religious school providing education on Sundays

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 主日學／主日学 (zyu² jat⁶ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 主日學／主日学 (zh) (zhǔrìxué)

  Min Nan: 主日學／主日学 (chú-ji̍t-o̍h), 主日學校／主日学校 (Chú-ji̍t ha̍k-hāu)

• Dutch: zondagsschool (nl) m or f
• Finnish: pyhäkoulu (fi)
• French: école du dimanche f
• German: Sonntagsschule (de) f
• Greek: κατηχητικό (el) n (katichitikó)
• Indonesian: sekolah Minggu
• Irish: scoil Domhnaigh f
• Japanese: 日曜学校 (ja) (にちようがっこう, nichiyō gakkō), 教会学校 (ja) (きょうかいがっこう, kyōkai gakkō)
• Norman: êcole du Dînmanche f (Jersey)
• Swedish: söndagsskola (sv) c