kindergartenn.

Brit.

/ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtn/, U.S.

/ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrtn/,

/ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrdən/

Forms: 1800s kindergarden, 1800s kindergärten (plural), 1800s– kindergarten.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Kindergarten.

Etymology: < German Kindergarten, lit. ‘children's garden’ (1840) < Kinder- , combining form of Kind child (see child n.) + Garten garden (see garden n.).The German word was coined by teacher and educationalist Friedrich Fröbel (see Fröbel n.) in a proposal entitled ‘Entwurf eines Planes der Begründung und Ausführung eines Kinder-Gartens’, dated 1 May 1840. The form kindergarden shows remodelling within English after garden n. The plural kindergärten is after the German plural form.

a. A school or establishment for the care and education of children of preschool age, a nursery school (cf. nursery school n. at nursery n. and adj. Compounds 3). In early use: spec. a school for the instruction of young children according to the method developed by Friedrich Fröbel (cf. Fröbel n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > nursery school

nursery school1835

day nursery1850

kindergarten1851

play school1869

kindy1910

preschool1925

kinder1955

1851 Morning Chron. 26 Aug. The so-called gardens for children (kindergärten), arranged according to M. Fröbel's system, have been shut.

1852 J. L. Motley Let. 18 May in Corr. (1889) I. v. 145 Mary has not yet found a school. We have sent her to a kindergarten.

1855 J. Ronge & B. Ronge (title) Practical Guide to the English Kinder Garten.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 370 Such as would be of use in a Kindergarten.

1908 Good Housek. 46 589/1 There are kindergartens for the babies, boys' club and girls' club for the older ones.

1961 Facts about Korea 156 For the working women and their children, a great number of creches and kindergartens are established in factories.

2012 K. Cole Poison Princess iii. 26 We'd been best friends ever since kindergarten.

b. Chiefly North American and South Asian. A class or programme within a school, intended for young children, usually between the ages of four and six, to prepare them for full-time schooling, and often having a shorter school day than classes for older children.

ΚΠ

1899 Nebraska State Jrnl. 5 Sept. 5/5 Clinton School..has the following grades: Kindergarten, first, second, third,..seventh and eighth grades.

1951 W. S. Elsbree & H. J. McNally Elem. School Admin. & Supervision xviii. 447 Kindergarten and first-grade teachers have such obvious needs for storage of blocks, easels, paints, and other materials commonly used in the primary grades.

1996 Times of India 24 Oct. 3/3 Over 59,000 students from 237 schools, from kindergarten to the fourth standard, were examined.

2014 New Yorker 19 May 69/2 One of her prime initiatives..was to close and consolidate the twelve lowest-performing kindergarten-through-eighth grade schools into eight ‘renew schools.’

a. figurative. Something resembling a kindergarten, often with implications of youth, childishness, or immaturity.

ΚΠ

1881 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 28 July 3/5 Your show is a National Kindergarten.

1883 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 May 189/3 As Kensington Gardens is the outdoor nursery of rank and money, so is Battersea Park the Kindergarten of our humbler classes.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxxiii. 442 I could not be bothered to set up a kindergarten of the imagination for their benefit.

1981 Sunday Times 15 Feb. 2 It is regarded as a kind of kindergarten to test the commitment of members to exclusive Afrikaner causes.

2002 J. Naughtie Rivals 18 He had no interest in the parliamentary kindergarten of the Oxford Union.

b. A nickname for: the group of young men recruited by Alfred, Lord Milner (1854–1925), High Commissioner of South Africa, to assist with reconstruction work after the Boer War (1899–1902). Also more fully (Lord) Milner's kindergarten.

ΚΠ

1902 Cape Times 12 Sept. 6/10 Lord Milner described the nature of the government that was to be set up, which was a Council. He (Mr. Merriman) wondered what sort of rag-tag and bob-tail they would have got to sit on that Council... What did he expect to set up? A sort of kindergarten of young Balliol men—laughter—to govern this great country.

1913 W. B. Worsfold Reconstr. New Colonies I. x. 259 Mr Curtis was one of the most flagrant examples of Lord Milner's ‘kindergarten’.

1971 Oxf. Hist. S. Afr. II. vii. 346 To Selborne and the members of the Kindergarten..unification was desirable.

2000 Vanity Fair Feb. 162/1 The ‘charming intellectuals’..belonged to a group of young men known as Lord Milner's ‘Kindergarten’.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to a kindergarten’.

ΚΠ

1853 D. Walker National Educ. 32 The fundamental principle of the Kindergarten system is the free and harmonious development of the child's natural faculties.

1869 Macmillan's Mag. July 221/1 Singing a few Kinder Garten songs with movements in unison.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. i. 207 The painted panels of the walls were like kindergarten work in flat, drab colours.

1968 Harrods Christmas Catal. 22/1 A kindergarten toy which is lots of fun.

2001 Harper's Mag. Jan. 8/1 They were always glad to pose for Kodak moments on an aircraft carrier or kindergarten chair.

kindergarten class n.

ΚΠ

1872 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. Apr. 310/2 (heading) Kindergarten class.

1957 Elem. School Jrnl. 58 141/1 A kindergarten class is sufficiently homogenous that all can be adequately cared for in two or three groups.

2014 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 25 Nov. 1/2 The kindergarten class prepared for weeks and spent much of Monday morning conducting run-throughs.

kindergarten student n.

ΚΠ

1891 Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 24 470 Although only five years old and a kindergarten student, he has a phenomenal knowledge of anatomy.

1974 Music Educators Jrnl. 60 47/1 An open school recognises the uniqueness..of every individual—from the kindergarten student to the principal.

2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Jan. 36/2 18 percent of the kindergarten students she screened had acanthosis nigricans.

kindergarten teacher n.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > elementary teacher

schooldame1577

abecedary1596

dame1641

kindergarten teacher1863

kindergartener1868

infant mistress1921

1863 Friends' Rev. 5 Dec. 220/2 If the little one conceives an imaginary railroad, the Kindergarten teacher accepts its rude blocks as veritable cars and engines, and the child gets a practical lesson.

1908 Amer. Motherhood Aug. 77/1 ‘Julia, dear,’ said grandpa... ‘Who taught you that song?’ ‘Miss Burton, my kindergarten teacher,’ Julia said.

2011 Rotary Today June 5/1 My wife..was a kindergarten teacher for many years, and she often told stories about her ‘show and tell’ experiences.

C2. attributive, with the sense ‘childish, immature; having qualities or exhibiting behaviour, speech, attitudes, etc., reminiscent of or appropriate to a kindergarten’ (cf. sense 2a); (also) simplistic, basic, lacking nuance or complexity.

ΚΠ

1897 Forum Oct. 223 The real reason stands out with kindergarten simplicity.

1902 E. Eldridge Calif. Girl xii. 88 The spiritual food he gave to his flock was kindergarten talk to Penloe.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xxxiv. 175 We kindergarten soldiers were beginning our art of war in the atmosphere of the twentieth century.

1994 Time 7 Feb. 29 Charmed by the kind of kindergarten criminology some of the current ‘three strikes’ proposals represent?

2012 Guardian 25 Apr. 17/1 We're Going to be Friends squanders its kindergarten simplicity.

Derivatives

ˈkinderˌgartenism n. the kindergarten system; (also in extended use) behaviour or speech considered to be reminiscent of or appropriate to a kindergarten teacher or student.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of

university extension1839

Philanthropinism1842

Arnoldismc1845

co-education1852

Pestalozzianism1859

kindergartenism1872

secularism1872

community education1873

Froebelism1879

co-ed1886

extramuralism1892

vocationalism1901

heurism1909

sandwich1913

Montessori1917

Montessorianism1917

Juku system1931

polytechnization1932

day release1936

essentialism1939

comprehensivization1958

multitracking1989

1872 Daily News 1 Aug. You have been reading that article on Kinder Gartenism.

1937 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune-Times 16 June 4/2 Criticizing the ‘Athleticism, Collegiateism and kindergartenism’ of the American universities.

1995 G. Burn Fullalove (2004) ii. 50 The astringent menthol vapours on my pillow at night; the crisp insinuating kindergartenisms of Meryl in the mornings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

kindergartenv.

Brit.

/ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtn/, U.S.

/ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrtn/,

/ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrdən/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: kindergarten n.

Etymology: < kindergarten n.

1. transitive and intransitive. Chiefly North American. To teach (a subject) in or at a kindergarten. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [verb (intransitive)] > teach by other methods

demonstrate1793

kindergarten1872

team-teach1962

society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach by other methods

example1645

demonstrate1683

bear-lead1833

kindergarten1872

1872 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Educ. 1871 420 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 1/19) I An excellent paper upon ‘Kindergartening the Gospel for children’.

1893 J. Strong New Era xv. 340 There is..no sectarian way of kindergartening.

1937 Bystander 18 Aug. 261 (heading) ‘Kindergartening’ in the Pets' Corner is a Pleasant New Profession for Girls.

a. transitive. To educate or care for (a child) in a kindergarten or using the kindergarten method. Also figurative. Frequently in passive. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1876 ‘D. Shortcut’ & ‘A. O'Pagus’ 100 Years a Republic: Our Show 62/1 We..resolved to send our children of the future to Sweden to be kindergartened.

1922 O. P. Gifford Honest Debtors iv. 33 Christianity was born, cradled and kindergartened in Jerusalem.

1958 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 24 July 8/4 She not only kindergartened her own two sons but took on her neighbor's pre-school-age children.

b. intransitive. To attend a kindergarten.

ΚΠ

1916 Chamber Commerce Jrnl. Maine 29 319/1 Bob was the favorite son of both his fond parents. He kindergartened in Portland.

1999 Madison Mag. Apr. 13/2 I was actually born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin! Yup—entered this earth at St. Marys Hospital. Kindergartened at Randall Grade School.

2014 U. Carbone Confessions of Sausage Queen 28 Sammy was a kindergartner in the same school Wally and Sunday and I had kindergartened in all those years ago.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kindergarten
释义	kindergartenn. Brit. /ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtn/, U.S. /ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrtn/, /ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrdən/ Forms: 1800s kindergarden, 1800s kindergärten (plural), 1800s– kindergarten. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Kindergarten. Etymology: < German Kindergarten, lit. ‘children's garden’ (1840) < Kinder- , combining form of Kind child (see child n.) + Garten garden (see garden n.).The German word was coined by teacher and educationalist Friedrich Fröbel (see Fröbel n.) in a proposal entitled ‘Entwurf eines Planes der Begründung und Ausführung eines Kinder-Gartens’, dated 1 May 1840. The form kindergarden shows remodelling within English after garden n. The plural kindergärten is after the German plural form. 1. a. A school or establishment for the care and education of children of preschool age, a nursery school (cf. nursery school n. at nursery n. and adj. Compounds 3). In early use: spec. a school for the instruction of young children according to the method developed by Friedrich Fröbel (cf. Fröbel n.). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > nursery school nursery school1835 day nursery1850 kindergarten1851 play school1869 kindy1910 preschool1925 kinder1955 1851 Morning Chron. 26 Aug. The so-called gardens for children (kindergärten), arranged according to M. Fröbel's system, have been shut. 1852 J. L. Motley Let. 18 May in Corr. (1889) I. v. 145 Mary has not yet found a school. We have sent her to a kindergarten. 1855 J. Ronge & B. Ronge (title) Practical Guide to the English Kinder Garten. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 370 Such as would be of use in a Kindergarten. 1908 Good Housek. 46 589/1 There are kindergartens for the babies, boys' club and girls' club for the older ones. 1961 Facts about Korea 156 For the working women and their children, a great number of creches and kindergartens are established in factories. 2012 K. Cole Poison Princess iii. 26 We'd been best friends ever since kindergarten. b. Chiefly North American and South Asian. A class or programme within a school, intended for young children, usually between the ages of four and six, to prepare them for full-time schooling, and often having a shorter school day than classes for older children. ΚΠ 1899 Nebraska State Jrnl. 5 Sept. 5/5 Clinton School..has the following grades: Kindergarten, first, second, third,..seventh and eighth grades. 1951 W. S. Elsbree & H. J. McNally Elem. School Admin. & Supervision xviii. 447 Kindergarten and first-grade teachers have such obvious needs for storage of blocks, easels, paints, and other materials commonly used in the primary grades. 1996 Times of India 24 Oct. 3/3 Over 59,000 students from 237 schools, from kindergarten to the fourth standard, were examined. 2014 New Yorker 19 May 69/2 One of her prime initiatives..was to close and consolidate the twelve lowest-performing kindergarten-through-eighth grade schools into eight ‘renew schools.’ 2. a. figurative. Something resembling a kindergarten, often with implications of youth, childishness, or immaturity. ΚΠ 1881 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 28 July 3/5 Your show is a National Kindergarten. 1883 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 May 189/3 As Kensington Gardens is the outdoor nursery of rank and money, so is Battersea Park the Kindergarten of our humbler classes. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxxiii. 442 I could not be bothered to set up a kindergarten of the imagination for their benefit. 1981 Sunday Times 15 Feb. 2 It is regarded as a kind of kindergarten to test the commitment of members to exclusive Afrikaner causes. 2002 J. Naughtie Rivals 18 He had no interest in the parliamentary kindergarten of the Oxford Union. b. A nickname for: the group of young men recruited by Alfred, Lord Milner (1854–1925), High Commissioner of South Africa, to assist with reconstruction work after the Boer War (1899–1902). Also more fully (Lord) Milner's kindergarten. ΚΠ 1902 Cape Times 12 Sept. 6/10 Lord Milner described the nature of the government that was to be set up, which was a Council. He (Mr. Merriman) wondered what sort of rag-tag and bob-tail they would have got to sit on that Council... What did he expect to set up? A sort of kindergarten of young Balliol men—laughter—to govern this great country. 1913 W. B. Worsfold Reconstr. New Colonies I. x. 259 Mr Curtis was one of the most flagrant examples of Lord Milner's ‘kindergarten’. 1971 Oxf. Hist. S. Afr. II. vii. 346 To Selborne and the members of the Kindergarten..unification was desirable. 2000 Vanity Fair Feb. 162/1 The ‘charming intellectuals’..belonged to a group of young men known as Lord Milner's ‘Kindergarten’. Compounds C1. a. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to a kindergarten’. ΚΠ 1853 D. Walker National Educ. 32 The fundamental principle of the Kindergarten system is the free and harmonious development of the child's natural faculties. 1869 Macmillan's Mag. July 221/1 Singing a few Kinder Garten songs with movements in unison. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. i. 207 The painted panels of the walls were like kindergarten work in flat, drab colours. 1968 Harrods Christmas Catal. 22/1 A kindergarten toy which is lots of fun. 2001 Harper's Mag. Jan. 8/1 They were always glad to pose for Kodak moments on an aircraft carrier or kindergarten chair. b. kindergarten class n. ΚΠ 1872 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. Apr. 310/2 (heading) Kindergarten class. 1957 Elem. School Jrnl. 58 141/1 A kindergarten class is sufficiently homogenous that all can be adequately cared for in two or three groups. 2014 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 25 Nov. 1/2 The kindergarten class prepared for weeks and spent much of Monday morning conducting run-throughs. kindergarten student n. ΚΠ 1891 Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 24 470 Although only five years old and a kindergarten student, he has a phenomenal knowledge of anatomy. 1974 Music Educators Jrnl. 60 47/1 An open school recognises the uniqueness..of every individual—from the kindergarten student to the principal. 2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Jan. 36/2 18 percent of the kindergarten students she screened had acanthosis nigricans. kindergarten teacher n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > elementary teacher schooldame1577 abecedary1596 dame1641 kindergarten teacher1863 kindergartener1868 infant mistress1921 1863 Friends' Rev. 5 Dec. 220/2 If the little one conceives an imaginary railroad, the Kindergarten teacher accepts its rude blocks as veritable cars and engines, and the child gets a practical lesson. 1908 Amer. Motherhood Aug. 77/1 ‘Julia, dear,’ said grandpa... ‘Who taught you that song?’ ‘Miss Burton, my kindergarten teacher,’ Julia said. 2011 Rotary Today June 5/1 My wife..was a kindergarten teacher for many years, and she often told stories about her ‘show and tell’ experiences. C2. attributive, with the sense ‘childish, immature; having qualities or exhibiting behaviour, speech, attitudes, etc., reminiscent of or appropriate to a kindergarten’ (cf. sense 2a); (also) simplistic, basic, lacking nuance or complexity. ΚΠ 1897 Forum Oct. 223 The real reason stands out with kindergarten simplicity. 1902 E. Eldridge Calif. Girl xii. 88 The spiritual food he gave to his flock was kindergarten talk to Penloe. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xxxiv. 175 We kindergarten soldiers were beginning our art of war in the atmosphere of the twentieth century. 1994 Time 7 Feb. 29 Charmed by the kind of kindergarten criminology some of the current ‘three strikes’ proposals represent? 2012 Guardian 25 Apr. 17/1 We're Going to be Friends squanders its kindergarten simplicity. Derivatives ˈkinderˌgartenism n. the kindergarten system; (also in extended use) behaviour or speech considered to be reminiscent of or appropriate to a kindergarten teacher or student. ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of university extension1839 Philanthropinism1842 Arnoldismc1845 co-education1852 Pestalozzianism1859 kindergartenism1872 secularism1872 community education1873 Froebelism1879 co-ed1886 extramuralism1892 vocationalism1901 heurism1909 sandwich1913 Montessori1917 Montessorianism1917 Juku system1931 polytechnization1932 day release1936 essentialism1939 comprehensivization1958 multitracking1989 1872 Daily News 1 Aug. You have been reading that article on Kinder Gartenism. 1937 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune-Times 16 June 4/2 Criticizing the ‘Athleticism, Collegiateism and kindergartenism’ of the American universities. 1995 G. Burn Fullalove (2004) ii. 50 The astringent menthol vapours on my pillow at night; the crisp insinuating kindergartenisms of Meryl in the mornings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kindergartenv. Brit. /ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtn/, U.S. /ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrtn/, /ˈkɪndərˌɡɑrdən/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: kindergarten n. Etymology: < kindergarten n. 1. transitive and intransitive. Chiefly North American. To teach (a subject) in or at a kindergarten. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (intransitive)] > teach by other methods demonstrate1793 kindergarten1872 team-teach1962 society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach by other methods example1645 demonstrate1683 bear-lead1833 kindergarten1872 1872 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Educ. 1871 420 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 1/19) I An excellent paper upon ‘Kindergartening the Gospel for children’. 1893 J. Strong New Era xv. 340 There is..no sectarian way of kindergartening. 1937 Bystander 18 Aug. 261 (heading) ‘Kindergartening’ in the Pets' Corner is a Pleasant New Profession for Girls. 2. a. transitive. To educate or care for (a child) in a kindergarten or using the kindergarten method. Also figurative. Frequently in passive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1876 ‘D. Shortcut’ & ‘A. O'Pagus’ 100 Years a Republic: Our Show 62/1 We..resolved to send our children of the future to Sweden to be kindergartened. 1922 O. P. Gifford Honest Debtors iv. 33 Christianity was born, cradled and kindergartened in Jerusalem. 1958 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 24 July 8/4 She not only kindergartened her own two sons but took on her neighbor's pre-school-age children. b. intransitive. To attend a kindergarten. ΚΠ 1916 Chamber Commerce Jrnl. Maine 29 319/1 Bob was the favorite son of both his fond parents. He kindergartened in Portland. 1999 Madison Mag. Apr. 13/2 I was actually born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin! Yup—entered this earth at St. Marys Hospital. Kindergartened at Randall Grade School. 2014 U. Carbone Confessions of Sausage Queen 28 Sammy was a kindergartner in the same school Wally and Sunday and I had kindergartened in all those years ago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851v.1872
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