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pre-K

pre-K is the abbreviation of prekindergarten.

Meaning of prekindergarten

Noun

prekindergarten (countable and uncountable, plural prekindergartens)

  1. (US) The first formal academic learning environment for children, before kindergarten.
    • Kate Yourke does not have the heart to tell her daughter Coral she was rejected from the prekindergarten program at Public School 132 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where her sister goes, even though siblings were supposed to get priority. […] This year, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has streamlined...2008 June 6, Jennifer Medina, “Parents Find Frustration With Process at Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021

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Forms of pre-K

pluralpre-Ks

Questions about pre-K

What is pre-K the abbreviation of?
Pre-K is the abbreviation of prekindergarten.

Words near pre-K in the dictionary

  1. pre-industrial
  2. pre-instructional
  3. pre-interview
  4. pre-interviews
  5. pre-Islamic
  6. pre-K
  7. pre-Ks
  8. pre-lash
  9. pre-lashed
  10. pre-lashes
  11. pre-lashing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-K (page history and authors); prekindergarten (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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