daycare

See also: day care

English

Alternative forms

• day care

Etymology

From day +‎ care.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪkeə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

daycare (countable and uncountable, plural daycares)

1. Daytime supervision, usually of children.

Derived terms

• daycare centre, daycare center
• playcare

Translations

daytime supervision

• Arabic: رِعَايَة نَهَارِيَّة f (riʕāya(t) nahāriyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日托 (zh) (rìtuō), 半托 (zh) (bàntuō)

• Danish: dagpleje (da)
• Esperanto: bebovartejo
• Faroese: dagrøkt c
• Finnish: päivähoito (fi)
• French: garderie (fr) f
• Hungarian: napközi otthonos óvoda, bölcsőde (hu)
• Icelandic: daggæsla f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: opieka dzienna
• Russian: я́сли (ru) f pl (jásli)
• Spanish: guardería (es) f
• Turkish: kreş (tr)

See also

• babysitting
• childcare
• creche
• kindergarten

Anagrams

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