preschool

See also: pre-school

English

Alternative forms

pre-school

Etymology

From pre- +‎ school.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːskuːl/
Audio (General American): (file)

Adjective

preschool (not comparable)

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)

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^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 17, 2020, The Checkup‎^[2]:
  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.
(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)

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