kindergartner
Syllables: kin·der·gart·nerUK/ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtnə/US/ˈkɪndɚˌɡɑrtnɚ/
kindergartner noun: a child who attends a kindergarten.
Noun (1)
kindergartner (plural kindergartners)
- A child who attends a kindergarten.
- I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let everyone get a taste of teaching or learning from someone different.1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 90
- All 50 states have had school immunization requirements since the beginning of the 1980s, with incoming kindergartners needing shots to protect against diseases including measles, polio and tetanus. No states require a Covid-19 vaccine for schoolchildren.2025 September 3, Deidre McPhillips, Shawn Nottingham, “Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildren”, in CNN
Noun (2)
kindergartner (plural kindergartners)
- A person who teaches at a kindergarten.
- But the heart is generally larger than the creed, as was once strikingly evidenced to me by Louisa Frankenberg, a dear, devout old German kindergartner, who had learned the art of kindergartning [...]1887, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School
- [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau rightly insists that man’s education begins at his birth, and that what is acquired unconsciously far exceeds, in amount and importance, what is acquired consciously and through instruction.¹ […] ¹ This is a truth to which kindergærtners ought to give serious heed.1898, Thomas Davidson, “Rousseau’s Educational Theories”, in Rousseau and Education According to Nature (Nicholas Murray Butler, editor, The Great Educators), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons...
Examples of kindergartner in a sentence
- I am a kindergartner, teaching in the Harrington School, New Bedford, Mass., and am a reader of the “Kindergarten Primary Magazine.”1919, Harriet L. Shafter, letter, in J. H. Schults, editor, The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, volume XXXII, Manistee, Mich.: The...
- The book that laid the groundwork for this new ideology was written by a German kindergartner who had emigrated to America in the late 1860s.1997, Barbara Beatty, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children:
- She went to New York City in 1872 to train under German kindergartner Maria Kraus-Boelte[.]1999, Richard J. Altenbaugh, Historical Dictionary of American Education, page 48:
Forms of kindergartner
| plural | kindergartners |
|---|---|
| alternative uncommon | kindergartener |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | Kindergärtner |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | kindergärtner |
Origin of kindergartner
From kindergarten + -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).
From German Kindergärtner.
Words formed from kindergartner
Questions about kindergartner
- What does kindergartner mean?
- Kindergartner means a child who attends a kindergarten.
- How do you use kindergartner in a sentence?
- I am a kindergartner, teaching in the Harrington School, New Bedford, Mass., and am a reader of the “Kindergarten Primary Magazine.”
- What part of speech is kindergartner?
- Kindergartner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce kindergartner?
- Kindergartner is pronounced /ˈkɪndɚˌɡɑrtnɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of kindergartner?
- The plural of kindergartner is kindergartners.
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