noun
British school for children aged 5-7
• Hypernyms: ↑grade school, ↑grammar school, ↑elementary school, ↑primary school
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infant school noun
A school for children up to about the age of seven
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Main Entry: ↑infant
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in the UK, a school for children between the ages of four and seven
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infant school or infants' school,
British. a school for young children, usually under seven years of age.
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(in Britain) a type of school for children from the age of five (when children are required by law to start school) until the age of seven or eight. Often an infant school forms, together with a ↑junior school, part of a ↑primary school.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.