Kindergarten

Betekenis

nursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day)

Koppelteken as

Kin‧der‧gar‧ten

Geslag

♂️ Manlik

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkɪndərˌɡartən/

Etimologie

Kind (“child”) + -er- + Garten (“garden”). Coined in 1840 by Friedrich Fröbel in the metaphorical sense of “place where children can grow in a natural way”, not in the literal sense of “garden”.