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preschooling

preschooling is the present participle and gerund of preschool.

Meaning of preschool

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 all 5 meanings of preschool

Noun

preschooling (uncountable)

  1. the early education that occurs at preschool

Questions about preschooling

What does preschooling mean?
Preschooling means the early education that occurs at preschool.
What is preschooling the present participle and gerund of?
Preschooling is the present participle and gerund of preschool.
What part of speech is preschooling?
Preschooling is a noun.

Words near preschooling in the dictionary

  1. preschizophrenic
  2. preschool
  3. preschooled
  4. preschooler
  5. preschoolers
  6. preschooling
  7. preschools
  8. prescience
  9. presciences
  10. prescient
  11. prescientific

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preschooling (page history and authors); preschool (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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