playschool

/ ˈpleɪˌskuːl /

noun

1. an informal nursery group taking preschool children in half-day sessions Also calledplaygroup

Example Sentences

At about the same time, police said, there was an attempt by a group of young people to set fire to a van that was parked at a local playschool.

From BBC

Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec called it a “Truman Show Presidency,” joking that the White House gave Mr. Biden “a playschool desk and fake oval office in a fake White House.”

From Washington Times

He described the experience as “sticky … Everything is covered in a layer of spilt Ribena, honey, peanut butter and playschool glue.”

From The Guardian

Also going quickly out of fashion are “crossword”, “playschool”, “Avon”, “cassette” and “croquet”.

From The Guardian

This week, my cousin and her 3-year-old faced a verbal racial assault in London outside the child’s playschool by a man in a van as he was driving away from them.

From New York Times

Related Words

• child care
• daycare
• nursery
• nursery school
• preschool