{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "Girls idealize favorite teachers and lavish affection upon the masculine traits they find about them in those of their own sex, and thus are advancing, though unconsciously, in the foreschool of love.", "ref": "1911, Granville Stanley Hall, Educational Problems:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[181, 191]]}, {"text": "[…] and to show how fundamental these responses of the soul of the child in its earliest years toward country scenes and life are as affording the bases for the art and literature that deals with these objects, sentiments toward which are the foreschools of religion and the foundation of natural science.", "ref": "1921, Granville Stanley Hall, Aspects of Child Life and Education:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[243, 254]]}, {"text": "\"Gossip,\" said G. Stanley Hall, \"is the foreschool of characterology and psychology.\"", "ref": "1930, Sydney Greenbie, The Romantic East: India, Indo-China, China and Japan, page 291:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[40, 50]]}, {"text": "Some of the children are to be provided with foreschool education from the age of five, others from the age of six (and possibly even from the age of seven in some remote areas).", "ref": "2001, Russian Education and Society - Volume 43, Issues 1-6, page 53:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[45, 55]]}], "links": [["teaching", "teaching"], ["preliminary", "preliminary"], ["learning", "learning"], ["preschool", "preschool"], ["training ground", "training ground"]], "categories": ["English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms prefixed with fore-", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned"], "glosses": ["A place of early teaching and preliminary learning; preschool; (by extension) a training ground where one learns basic facts or skills for later use."]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {}, "expansion": "foreschool (plural foreschools)"}], "forms": [{"form": "foreschools", "tags": ["plural"]}], "etymology_text": "From fore- + school. Compare German Vorschule (“preschool”), Danish førskole (“preschool, kindergarten”), Swedish förskola (“preschool”).", "etymology_links": [["fore-", "fore-#English"], ["school", "school#English"], ["Vorschule", "Vorschule#German"], ["førskole", "førskole#Danish"], ["förskola", "förskola#Swedish"]], "etymology_templates": [{"name": "pre", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "fore-", "3": "school"}, "expansion": "fore- + school"}, {"name": "cog", "args": {"1": "de", "2": "Vorschule", "t": "preschool"}, "expansion": "German Vorschule (“preschool”)"}, {"name": "cog", "args": {"1": "da", "2": "førskole", "t": "preschool, kindergarten"}, "expansion": "Danish førskole (“preschool, kindergarten”)"}, {"name": "cog", "args": {"1": "sv", "2": "förskola", "t": "preschool"}, "expansion": "Swedish förskola (“preschool”)"}], "word": "foreschool", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}