Definition of "nursery school" []

• A school for children, usually between the ages of three and five, who are not old enough to attend kindergarten. (noun)

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• "You pretend you think that Pavlik Morozov was a true hero deserving a medal, just as in nursery school we pretended to chew the bread with rancid butter."
• "I learned this game from Ellen Birnbaum, a fabulous nursery school teacher who says she spent years of her childhood playing it."
• "It is better than many, with a playground in the center—a sandbox and a tall slide made of splintery wood down which I used to glide during nursery school winters."