as in nursery
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
a single father with two children in prekindergarten
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Recent Examples of prekindergarten
Florida Atlantic University professors have been training Osceola County prekindergarten teachers techniques for teaching English since 2023.
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Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
The March 22, 2024, accident resulted in the deaths of a prekindergarten student and a 33-year-old man when a concrete pump truck collided with a Hays school district bus.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Right now, this work is almost always low-wage, which means these jobs are often worked by women, too: 94% of childcare workers and 97% of prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers are women.
—Katie Gatti Tassin, Time, 10 June 2025
Parkview Elementary: Cedarburg School District, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade.
—Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
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Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
The March 22, 2024, accident resulted in the deaths of a prekindergarten student and a 33-year-old man when a concrete pump truck collided with a Hays school district bus.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Right now, this work is almost always low-wage, which means these jobs are often worked by women, too: 94% of childcare workers and 97% of prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers are women.
—Katie Gatti Tassin, Time, 10 June 2025
Parkview Elementary: Cedarburg School District, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade.
—Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prekindergarten
Noun
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Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Wood objects are natural and beautiful, creating a soft aesthetic for your nursery.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
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The county is scaling up the program each year, Yambra said, and is on track to have universal preschool for all county residents (11,000 seats) by 2030.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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As of the end of June, around 55,800 children were relying on either the CCDF or Indiana’s On My Way Pre-K vouchers, which help low-income families pay for preschool for 4-year-olds.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Prekindergarten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prekindergarten. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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