Definitions

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  • noun a nursery school, kindergarten

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions

Etymologies

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play +‎ school

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Examples

  • I spent the morning in Stibbard at the playschool, which is seeking funds to build a new building adjacent to the new school.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • I go to 'playschool' with my youngest grand daugher (4) a couple of times a month.

    In only SIX easy steps! Zenmomma 2009

  • Also running five days a week is a playschool which is inspected by Ofsted and run by fully-qualified staff.

    unknown title 2009

  • Jasper goes to playschool a couple of days a week.

    About Last Night - Her Bad Mother 2010

  • The year for playschool she picked out a princess lunch kit and thermos and a Spider Man back pack to carry it all in.

    » The Princess Pose Strocel.com 2009

  • I am just as thunderstruck as my son, Bevan Jake, had been when he was two years old and, at playschool, his dry, red kidney bean had exploded from the dirt in a Dixie cup into a tender two-leaf shoot.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • I am just as thunderstruck as my son, Bevan Jake, had been when he was two years old and, at playschool, his dry, red kidney bean had exploded from the dirt in a Dixie cup into a tender two-leaf shoot.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • I am just as thunderstruck as my son, Bevan Jake, had been when he was two years old and, at playschool, his dry, red kidney bean had exploded from the dirt in a Dixie cup into a tender two-leaf shoot.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Before everyone learned the definition of "waterboarding," playschool children talked of (often with an Asian country's name attached at the front) the "water torture."

    Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem 2010

  • Before everyone learned the definition of "waterboarding," playschool children talked of (often with an Asian country's name attached at the front) the "water torture."

    Chris Weigant: Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem 2010

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