preschool

See also: pre-school

English

Alternative forms

• pre-school

Etymology

From pre- +‎ school.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːskuːl/

• Audio (General American):

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Adjective

preschool (not comparable)

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

Related terms

• preschooler

Translations

relating to years before primary school

• Armenian: նախադպրոցական (hy) (naxadprocʻakan)
• Belarusian: дашко́льны (daškólʹny)
• Bulgarian: предучилищен (predučilišten)
• Burmese: မူကြို (my) (mu-krui), မူလတန်းကြို (mula.tan:krui)
• Czech: předškolní (cs)
• Finnish: koulua edeltävä
• French: préscolaire (fr)
• German: vorschulisch
• Greek: προσχολικός (el) m (proscholikós)
• Indonesian: prasekolah (id)
• Macedonian: пре́дшколски (prédškolski)
• Polish: przedszkolny (pl)
• Portuguese: pré-escolar m or f
• Romanian: preșcolar (ro) m or n, preșcolară f
• Russian: дошко́льный (ru) (doškólʹnyj)
• Slovak: predškolský
• Spanish: preescolar (es)
• Swedish: förskola (sv) n
• Tajik: томактабӣ (tomaktabi)
• Turkish: okul öncesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: дошкі́льний (doškílʹnyj)

Noun

preschool (plural preschools)

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

Translations

nursery school — see nursery school

Verb

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.

See also

• Preschool education on Wikipedia.Wikipedia