Kindergarten

Significado

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

Hifenizado como

Kin‧der‧gar‧ten

Gênero

♂️ Masculino

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkɪndərˌɡartən/

Etimologia

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”.