play group

1. 1.

   a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions

   Synonymsplayschool

   Broaderpreschool

Questions about play group

What does play group mean?

play group means "a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions".

What is another word for play group?

Close synonyms include playschool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is play group a common word?

play group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.