Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pre-school

also preschool 1. Pre-school is used to describe things relating to the care and education of children before they reach the age when they have to go to school. (WRITTEN) Looking after pre-school children is very tiring... The Halsey Report emphasized the value of a pre-school education. ADJ: ADJ n 2. In the United States, a pre-school is a school for children between the ages of 2 and 5 or 6. Children graduate to the kindergarten, then pre-school, and then school. N-VAR