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A preschooler is a small child who is not yet in “real” school — the years of grades, tests, and a full school day. In many English-speaking places that means about age three to five. Some preschoolers stay at home; many go to preschool, a gentle class with play, songs, and first friends. Though actually, the edges are messy. Teachers may stop saying preschooler the day a child enters kindergarten; families may still use it. Toddler is younger, still unsteady on the feet. School-age is older, once primary school has started. People sometimes stretch preschooler to mean any child who is not in school yet, even a baby, but that is loose talk. The word is friendly and ordinary, not a medical term.
學齡前兒童；上幼兒園的小孩。台灣的「幼兒園」涵蓋好幾年；美國常把 kindergarten 單指小學前那一年，和台灣不完全一樣。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
preschoolernoun
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A child who has not yet attended school.
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A child who is educated at preschool.
- 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.
- 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).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。