Thesaurus results for SUNDAY SCHOOL

Sunday school

noun

Definition of Sunday school

as in charter school

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for Sunday school

Noun

The accountant and former Collier County School Board member founded a charter school management company that started six classical education charter schools in Florida.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
Phothisarath was struck on the tracks outside of Trinity Basin School, a charter school.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of charter school

Noun

The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Murphy noted that George, however, is the first future monarch to attend a secondary school like Eton in the age of smartphones and social media, requiring even more privacy precautions than in the past.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

For example, a smartwatch in elementary school, then a basic phone in early middle school, then a restricted smartphone later, with each step tied to how your child handled the previous one.

— Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
The app’s office sits a stone’s throw away from the Liangzhu ruins, on the second floor of a gray building that used to be an elementary school in the village.

— Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

Another big cluster of citations in South Miami-Dade occurred in the Kendall area near Terra Environmental Research Institute, a public magnet school; Kendale Elementary and the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
The magnet school was among the district's strategies to attract students from across the city.

— Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of magnet school

Noun

This week, as Spanish children across the country started their school year, the Reina Sofia primary school in Ceuta did its best to prepare for a normal first week, too – getting the front entrance clean and putting photos of teachers on the wall.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
In each session, tutors also assist students with their homework assigned by their primary school.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of primary school

Noun

In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Recommendations From the Star-Telegram, a story on a top high school baseball pitcher being ruled ineligible in Texas for transferring for athletic reasons.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

My professional experience, community service, public school involvement and commitment to listening.

— Miami Herald staff, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
School districts get the largest portion of property taxes and serve as a primary source of public school funding, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue.

— Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of common school

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Sunday

Sunday school

Sunday schools

See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

Style

“Sunday school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Sunday%20school. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

Copy Citation

Synonyms of Sunday school

noun

Example Sentences

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

More from Merriam-Webster on Sunday school

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

fungible

Popular in Grammar & Usage

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Why do we use apostrophes to show possession?

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Popular in Wordplay

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Back to School Vocabulary

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World

Popular

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Games & Quizzes