preschooler

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English

Etymology

From preschool +‎ -er.

Noun

preschooler (plural preschoolers)

  1. A child who has not yet attended school.
  2. A child who is educated at preschool.
    • 1975, James H. Ryan, Pablum, Parents & Pandemonium: Glimpses of a Pediatrician’s World, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →ISBN, page 254:
      Countless issues arise in family life every day, from the litany of no-noes showered on the toddler, to calling the preschooler in for his lunch.
    • 2008, Usha Goswami, Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, page 160:
      Tasks that include non-living natural kinds (e.g., clouds and rivers) generally elicit more animalistic errors (e.g., Carey, 1985; Laurendeau & Pinard, 1962; Smeets, 1973; see Nass, 1956, for discussion of content effects); however, even with such items, preschoolers are no more likely to overattribute life than to underattribute it (Hatano et al., 1993; Smeets, 1973).
    • 2016, Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother:
      The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.
      “Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?”
      Wild cheers.
      “C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”

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