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preschool

/ˈpɹiːskuːl/

preschool adjective: of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

Adjective

preschool (not comparable)

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

Noun

preschool (plural preschools)

  1. A nursery school.
    • 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?2015, Timothy S O'Connell, Brent Cuthbertson, Terilyn J. Goins, Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services, →ISBN
    • 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.2020 August 17, Perri Klass, “How Children’s Sleep Habits Have Changed in the Pandemic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2020, The Checkup
  2. (Philippines) A school including nursery and kindergarten. It is succeeded by elementary 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.

preschool meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

preschool in Hindi

प्रीस्कूल

preschool in Tamil

அரிவரி

preschool in Bengali

আপনাদের

preschool in Telugu

ప్రీస్కూల్
More languagesFewer languages
preschool in Malayalam
പ്രീസ്കൂൾ
preschool in Kannada
ಶಾಲಾಪೂರ್ವದ, ಮಗು ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಮುನ್ನದ
preschool in Punjabi
ਪ੍ਰੀਸਕੂਲ
preschool in Gujarati
પ્રીસ્કૂલ
preschool in Indonesian
prasekolah
preschool in Myanmar
မူကြို mu-krui, မူလတန်းကြို mula.tan:krui

Forms of preschool

Adjective
alternative formpre-school
Noun
pluralpreschools
Verb
third-person singular presentpreschools
present participlepreschooling
past participlepreschooled
pastpreschooled

Origin of preschool

From pre- + school.

Questions about preschool

What does preschool mean?
Preschool means of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.
What is preschool in Hindi?
Preschool in Hindi is प्रीस्कूल. See Preschool meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is preschool?
Preschool can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce preschool?
Preschool is pronounced /ˈpɹiːskuːl/ (US).

Words near preschool in the dictionary

  1. prescheduled
  2. preschedules
  3. prescheduling
  4. preschism
  5. preschizophrenic
  6. preschool
  7. preschooled
  8. preschooler
  9. preschoolers
  10. preschooling
  11. preschools

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: preschool (page history and authors); preschool (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); preschool (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preschool (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preschool (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); preschool (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); preschool (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preschool (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); preschool (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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