Dictionary

preschooler en · NOUN

Etymology

From preschool + -er.

Meanings

1. A child who has not yet attended school.
2. A child who is educated at preschool.
   • The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers. “Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?” Wild cheers. “C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???” 2016, Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother:
   • Countless issues arise in family life every day, from the litany of no-noes showered on the toddler, to calling the preschooler in for his lunch. 1975, James H. Ryan, Pablum, Parents & Pandemonium: Glimpses of a Pediatrician’s World, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →ISBN, page 254:
   • Tasks that include non-living natural kinds (e.g., clouds and rivers) generally elicit more animalistic errors (e.g., Carey, 1985; Laurendeau & Pinard, 1962; Smeets, 1973; see Nass, 1956, for discussion of content effects); however, even with such items, preschoolers are no more likely to overattribute life than to underattribute it (Hatano et al., 1993; Smeets, 1973). 2008, Usha Goswami, Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, page 160:

Forms

Translations (15)

sv förskoleelev (a child who is educated at preschool) · hy նախադպրոցական (a child who is educated at preschool) · uk дошкі́льник (a child who is educated at preschool) · uk дошкі́льниця (a child who is educated at preschool) · hu óvodás (a child who is educated at preschool) · ru дошко́льник (a child who is educated at preschool) · de Vorschülerin (a child who is educated at preschool) · ca pàrvula (a child who is educated at preschool) · fi esikoululainen (a child who is educated at preschool) · sv förskolebarn (a child who is educated at preschool) · es párvulo (a child who is educated at preschool) · ca pàrvul (a child who is educated at preschool) · de Vorschüler (a child who is educated at preschool) · ro preșcolară (a child who is educated at preschool) · ro preșcolar (a child who is educated at preschool)