different between preschool vs creche

English

Etymology

pre- +? school

Adjective

preschool (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

Related terms

• preschooler

Translations

Noun

preschool (plural preschools)

1. A nursery school.

Translations

Verb

preschool (third-person singular simple present preschools, present participle preschooling, simple past and past participle preschooled)

1. (transitive) To provide nursery school education for.
2. (intransitive) To undergo nursery school education.

See also

• Preschool education on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

• Creech

Old French

Alternative forms

• crecche, cresche

Etymology

From Late Latin cripia, from Old Frankish *krippija, *kripja (“crib, cradle”), from Proto-Germanic *kribj?. More at crib.

Noun

creche f (oblique plural creches, nominative singular creche, nominative plural creches)

1. crib, manger [1150 CE]

Descendants

• Angevin: guêrche, querche
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: écrèche (Berrichon)
• Bourguignon: creiche, croiche, crouéche, écreuche, écroche, queurche
• Champenois: aicroche
• Middle French: creche, creppe
  • French: crèche
    • ? English: creche
• ? Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • English: cratch
• Norman: créque
• Picard: crèche (Athois)
• Tourangeau: écrèche, éguerche
• Walloon: crèpe, cripe

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crèche.

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

1. nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)

   Synonym: berçário

Further reading

• “creche” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.