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English
Noun
nursery school (countable and uncountable, plural nursery schools)
- (Canada, British) An educational institution for small children (normally around 3 to 5 years old, who not yet have begun primary school).
- Synonyms: preschool, prep, (borrowed from German "Kindergarten"; mainly Canada, the U.S. and Australia) kindergarten
Translations
a school for pre-school children
- Albanian: çerdhe (sq)
- Burmese: မူကြိုကျောင်း (mu-krui-kyaung:), မူလတန်းကြိုကျောင်း (my) (mula.tan:krui-kyaung:)
- Catalan: escola bressol (ca) f, parvulari (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幼兒園 / 幼儿园 (zh) (yòu'éryuán), 托兒所 / 托儿所 (zh) (tuō'érsuǒ), (Taiwan, Hong Kong, or dialectal) 幼稚園 / 幼稚园 (zh) (yòuzhìyuán)
- Dutch: peuterklas (nl) f, peuterspeelzaal (nl) f
- Esperanto: infanvartejo, infanĝardeno
- Finnish: päiväkoti (fi)
- French: école maternelle (fr) f, jardin d’enfants (fr) m
- Galician: escola infantil f
- German: Kindergarten (de) m, Vorschule (de) f
- Greek: νηπιαγωγείο (el) n (nipiagogeío)
- Greenlandic: børnehave, paaqqinniffik, meeqqerivik
- Hungarian: óvoda (hu)
- Irish: naíscoil f
- Italian: scuola materna f, scuola dell'infanzia f
- Japanese: 保育園 (ja) (ほいくえん, hoikuen)
- Khmer: សាលាកុមារដ្ឋាន (sala komar than)
- Luxembourgish: Spillschoul f
- Malay: prasekolah (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: barnehage (no) m
- Nynorsk: barnehage m
- Portuguese: escolinha f (Brazil), infantário (pt) m, jardim de infância (pt) m, pré-escola f, pré f
- Romanian: grădiniță (ro) f
- Russian: де́тский сад (ru) m (détskij sad), я́сли (ru) f pl (jásli), дошко́льное учрежде́ние n (doškólʹnoje učreždénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: fo-sgoil f
- Spanish: parvulario (es) m, guardería (es) f, preescolar (es) m
- Swedish: förskola (sv) c
- Tajik: муассисаи томактабӣ (muassisa-yi tomaktabi)
- Turkish: kreş (tr), anaokulu (tr)
- Welsh: ysgol feithrin f
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