Sunday school
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English
Noun
Sunday school (countable and uncountable, plural Sunday schools)
- A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.
- 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
- It 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.
- 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 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."
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religious school providing education on Sundays
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