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kindergartner

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See also: kindergärtner and Kindergärtner

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Etymology 1

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From kindergarten +‎ -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).[1]

Noun

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kindergartner (plural kindergartners)

  1. A child who attends a kindergarten.
    • 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 90:
      I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let everyone get a taste of teaching or learning from someone different.
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Etymology 2

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From German Kindergärtner.[1]

Noun

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kindergartner (plural kindergartners)

  1. (rare) A person who teaches at a kindergarten.
    • 1887, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School:
      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 [...]
    • 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, section “Infancy”, page 107:
      [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.
    • 1919, Harriet L. Shafter, letter, in J. H. Schults, editor, The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, volume XXXII, Manistee, Mich.: The Kindergarten Magazine Company, page 92, column 1:
      I am a kindergartner, teaching in the Harrington School, New Bedford, Mass., and am a reader of the “Kindergarten Primary Magazine.”
    • 1997, Barbara Beatty, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children:
      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.
    • 1999, Richard J. Altenbaugh, Historical Dictionary of American Education, page 48:
      She went to New York City in 1872 to train under German kindergartner Maria Kraus-Boelte[.]
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “kindergartener, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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