preschool

• pre-school

From pre- +‎ school.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːskuːl/

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preschool (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

• preschooler

preschool (plural preschools)

1. A nursery school.
   • 2015, Timothy S O'Connell, Brent Cuthbertson, Terilyn J. Goins, Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services, →ISBN:

     What could you do with the transumer trend in your agency? What about a coffee cart where parents pick up their children from preschool or classes?

   • 2020 August 17, Perri Klass, “How Children’s Sleep Habits Have Changed in the Pandemic”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 17, 2020, The Checkup‎:

     In a study published in late July in the Journal of Sleep Research, researchers looked at how 1,619 children in China were doing in terms of sleep. The children, ages 4, 5 and 6, were recruited from 11 preschools in the province of Guizhou, in the city of Zunyi, about 650 miles from Wuhan.

2. (Philippines) A school including nursery and kindergarten. It is succeeded by elementary school.

preschool (third-person singular simple present preschools, present participle preschooling, simple past and past participle preschooled)

1. (transitive) To provide nursery school education for.
2. (intransitive) To undergo nursery school education.

• Preschool education on Wikipedia.Wikipedia