Kumonn.
/ˈkuːmɒn/, U.S. /ˈkumɔn/, /ˈkumɑn/ A proprietary name for: a tuition programme, originating in Japan and chiefly used as a form of supplementary education, in which children build up their skills in a subject (esp. mathematics) by completing worksheets of increasing difficulty, under the guidance of a special instructor. Frequently attributive.
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1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 27 Feb. While we were there, we showed the film..to some Japanese children in a Kumon school.
1986 J. Hendry Becoming Japanese (1992) ii. 67 The children of doctors seemed to be under particular pressure, especially to attend the more academically orientated classes such as ‘Kumon’.
1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 12 Aug. 10/2 (advt.) Become a Kumon maths instructor.
2003 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 8 Mar. h7 Kids find themselves running on an endless gerbil wheel of soccer practices, swimming lessons, after-school Kumon, and before-school cross-country training.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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