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playgroup

playgroup noun: a group of children who meet together for supervised play.

Noun

playgroup (plural playgroups)

  1. A group of children who meet together for supervised play.
  2. A group of gamers who meet together, especially for role-playing games.
  3. (Hong-Kong, UK) An informal organised group providing care and activities for preschool children.

Forms of playgroup

pluralplaygroups

Origin of playgroup

From play + group.

Words formed from playgroup

Questions about playgroup

What does playgroup mean?
Playgroup means a group of children who meet together for supervised play.
What part of speech is playgroup?
Playgroup is a noun.
What is the plural of playgroup?
The plural of playgroup is playgroups.

Words near playgroup in the dictionary

  1. playground rumors
  2. playground taunt
  3. playground taunts
  4. playgroundful
  5. playgrounds
  6. playgroup
  7. playgrouper
  8. playgroupers
  9. playgroups
  10. playhead
  11. playheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playgroup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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