kindergartenkin‧der‧gar‧ten /ˈkɪndəɡɑːtn $ -dərɡɑːrtn/ noun [countable, uncountable] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINkindergarten
ExamplesOrigin:
1800-1900 German ‘children's garden’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Katie was one of the few children who could read when she started kindergarten.
- Mrs. Marks was my kindergarten teacher.
- About 70 percent of the funds raised by the tax go on salaries for everyone from parish priests to kindergarten teachers.
- Diana was enrolled at a girls' day-school, Charles at a nearby kindergarten.
- General fund spending for kindergarten through high school would increase 12. 7 percent to $ 17. 1 billion.
- I had been the celebrated child at home and in our village kindergarten.
- In one of the sessions round the pool he was horrified to hear Mao apply kindergarten arithmetic to war.
- Jessie has declared that she wants to be a kindergarten teacher.
- Poverty made mere housing a luxury; and poverty forced families to forgo kindergartens and higher education for their children.
- The Tams, who worked then as a high school principal and a kindergarten teacher, lived in a two-story home.
Longman Language Activatorschools for very young children► nursery school
Collocations a school for children aged between about two and five where they play and do activities with other children: · Ian will soon be old enough to go to nursery school.
► preschool American a school for children aged between about two and five: · Eastin is calling for a plan to provide free preschool for all 4-year-olds.
► kindergarten American the first year of school for children aged 5: · Katie was one of the few children who could read when she started kindergarten.· Mrs. Marks was my kindergarten teacher.
WORD SETS► Pre Schoolday nursery, nounkindergarten, nounnursery, nounnursery nurse, nounplaygroup, nounplayschool, nounpreschool, adjectivepreschooler, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► child
1American English a school or class for children aged five2British English a school for children aged two to five SYN nursery school· Some teachers expect incoming kindergarten children to be able to sit for long periods of time concentrating on workbooks or worksheets.· That is, the books kindergarten children read can generally be read in a single sitting.· My public school is under state mandate to conduct a screening for new entrants, and kindergarten children fall into this category.
► program· But full-day kindergarten programs have their weaknesses, too.· Based on these tests, certain children are placed in specific kindergarten programs.· In fact, only a little more than half of the kindergarten programs in the country are full day.· And these kindergarten programs may seem like a regression from full-day preschool programs.· Some three-hour kindergarten programs can offer a lot of rigorous teaching and learning.· Everyone has a different idea of what an academically challenging kindergarten program might be like.
► teacher· About 70 percent of the funds raised by the tax go on salaries for everyone from parish priests to kindergarten teachers.· The Tams, who worked then as a high school principal and a kindergarten teacher, lived in a two-story home.· For all her aristocratic breeding, this innocent young kindergarten teacher felt totally at sea in the deferential hierarchy of Buckingham Palace.· Jessie has declared that she wants to be a kindergarten teacher.· He made Henry Kissinger look like a kindergarten teacher.· And then the kindergarten teacher started throwing him back into the nursery school.· Every day, Valerie says, the kindergarten teacher would call and ask her to come in.· Two philosophies are especially prevalent among kindergarten teachers.
VERB► enter· In a sense, unknowingly, he had already entered the kindergarten of the Inquisition.· Too many children are entering kindergarten without basic skills of knowing colors, letters and numbers.· Again and again parents said that they observed the characteristics of work inhibition before their child entered kindergarten.· The parents want to know if I can make an exception and allow their child to enter kindergarten.