prekindergarten
prekindergarten adjective: before kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.
Adjective
prekindergarten (not comparable)
- Before kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.
Noun
prekindergarten (countable and uncountable, plural prekindergartens)
- The first formal academic learning environment for children, before kindergarten.
- Kate Yourke does not have the heart to tell her daughter Coral she was rejected from the prekindergarten program at Public School 132 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where her sister goes, even though siblings were supposed to get priority. […] This year, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has streamlined...2008 June 6, Jennifer Medina, “Parents Find Frustration With Process at Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021
Forms of prekindergarten
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Origin of prekindergarten
From pre- + kindergarten.
Words formed from prekindergarten
Questions about prekindergarten
- What does prekindergarten mean?
- Prekindergarten means before kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.
- What part of speech is prekindergarten?
- Prekindergarten can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near prekindergarten in the dictionary
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