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preschooler

preschooler

23 2.3
A young child who goes to school before starting primary school
  • noun
  • /ˈpriˌskuːlər/
translation icon : niño preescolar
  • The teacher read a story to the group of preschoolers sitting on the carpet.
  • gifted preschoolers
  • behaviors in preschoolers
  • preschoolers and toddlers

Doctor Cheeseman also noted several apps that are designed to help teach preschoolers preschoolers the fundamentals of reading.

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Examples

  • At the party, the preschoolers sang songs and played games together.

  • Many preschoolers enjoy playing in the sandbox during their outdoor time.

  • And here, imagine you are one of these preschoolers who gets this test.

  • So that sketch was drawn by a preschooler who who claimed to see aliens.

  • So even in preschoolers, boys are throwing more.

  • In educational areas, the preschoolers can choose what activity they want to do.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Maybe she, uh, teaches preschoolers and she loves it.

    What Happens Later (2023)

  • Previous studies of the relation between involvement and academic development with preschoolers had been mixed.

    Academic text (2008)

  • So for example, preschoolers may progress in terms of their behaviors, become more clingy, right?

    Stanford

  • We have the preschoolers, we have the school age and we have the teenagers, and they're all very different.

    Andrew Huberman

Synonyms

youngster
vspreschooler
213 1.0

A child or teenager who is not yet an adult

is narrower, meaning specifically a young child who attends early school
kiddie
vspreschooler
  • Informal
87 7.7

A young child

is identical in meaning but follows the alternative informal spelling
kindergartener
vspreschooler
  • US
5 2.2

A child around five or six who attends a class for young children

is broader in age, not focused on the typical five or six year range
kiddy
vspreschooler
  • Informal
1 7.5

A young child

is the neutral, more formal term used in normal or formal contexts

How Young

infant
411 1.0
toddler
171 1.0
preschooler
23 2.3
child
∞ 1.0
adolescent
69 3.5

Surface Forms

preschooler singular
preschoolers plural

Morphology

preschooler = preschool (transparent) = pre + school + er

The noun is straightforwardly formed from 'preschool' with '-er' to mean a child who attends or is in preschool.

Etymology

Preschooler comes from pre- 'before', the word school, and the ending -er 'person who'. So, a preschooler is a child who is 'before' school age and often attends preschool.