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kin⋅der⋅gar⋅ten

  [kin-der-gahr-tn, -dn]
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–noun
a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
Origin:
1850–55; < G: lit., children's garden, equiv. to Kinder children (see kind 2 ) + Garten garden
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kin·der·gar·ten   (kĭn'dər-gär'tn, -dn)   
n.   Abbr. K
A program or class for four-year-old to six-year-old children that serves as an introduction to school.

[German : Kinder, genitive pl. of Kind, child (from Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind; see genə- in Indo-European roots) + Garten, garden (from Middle High German garte, from Old High German garto; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots).]
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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 by 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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