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Kindergarten
Meaning
nursery school; kindergarten; day care center (institution where children below school age play and are looked after during the day)
Hyphenated as
Kin‧der‧gar‧ten
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɪndərˌɡartən/
Etymology
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”.
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