day care center

English

Alternative forms

• day care centre

Noun

day care center (plural day care centers)

1. A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work. Generally more entertaining and less educational than a preschool, but with longer hours of operation.

Synonyms

• day nursery (UK)

Translations

A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work

• Finnish: päiväkoti (fi)
• French: garderie (fr) f
• German: Kindertagesstätte (de) f, Kita (de) f (shortening of the former), Tagesstätte (de) f, Ganztagskindergarten m (Austrian)
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• Hungarian: bölcsőde (hu)
• Russian: де́тский сад (ru) (détskij sad)

See also

• day centre