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noun
a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
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Kindergarten
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- Freshmen now arrive on campus already having sucked on multicultural milkshakes from kindergarten to senior prom.
- Children aged between three and six are guaranteed a place in a kindergarten.
- His little feet dangled off the kindergarten chair, as his legs were not long enough to reach the floor.
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Word Origin & History
kindergarten
1852, from Ger., lit. "children's garden," from Kinder "children" (pl. of Kind "child") + Garten "garden" (see yard (1)). Coined 1840 by Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) in ref. to his method of developing intelligence in young children, the first one in Eng. established 1850
EXPANDby Johannes Ronge, Ger. Catholic priest. Taken into Eng. untranslated, where other nations that borrowed the institution nativized the name (cf. Dan. börnehave, Modern Heb. gan yeladim, lit. "garden of children").
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