kindergartner
See also: Kindergärtner
English
Alternative forms
- kindergartener (less common)
Etymology
kindergarten + -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɪndɚˌɡɑrtnɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtnə/
- Hyphenation: kin‧der‧gart‧ner
Noun
kindergartner (plural kindergartners)
- A child who attends a kindergarten.
- 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 90:
- I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let everyone get a taste of teaching or learning from someone different.
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- (rare) A person who teaches at a kindergarten.
- 1887, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School:
- But the heart is generally larger than the creed, as was once strikingly evidenced to me by Louisa Frankenberg, a dear, devout old German kindergartner, who had learned the art of kindergartning [...]
- 1997, Barbara Beatty, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children:
- The book that laid the groundwork for this new ideology was written by a German kindergartner who had emigrated to America in the late 1860s.
- 1999, Richard J. Altenbaugh, Historical Dictionary of American Education, page 48:
- She went to New York City in 1872 to train under German kindergartner Maria Kraus-Boelte[.]
- 1887, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School:
Translations
child who attends a kindergarten
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person who teaches at a kindergarten
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