kindergartner

noun kin·der·gart·ner \ ˈkin-dər-ˌgärt-nər , ˈkin-də- , -ˌgärd- \

variants: or less commonly kindergartener play \ˈkin-dər-ˌgär-tə-nər, ˈkin-də-, -də-\

|Updated on: 1 Aug 2018

Definition of kindergartner

1 : a child attending or of an age to attend kindergarten

2 : a teacher at a kindergarten

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Recent Examples of kindergartner from the Web

In one of the instances last October, the bus dropped off the kindergartner after school six blocks from home and 25 minutes early, according to the lawsuit filed by Catlin Moser.

— aimee green, OregonLive.com, "Portland schools sued after boy, 5, dropped off at bus stop alone," 18 Apr. 2018
Schools have become a frequent target, with college students on down to kindergartners falling victim.

— New York Times, "5 People Dead in Shooting at Maryland’s Capital Gazette Newsroom," 28 June 2018
Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding words.

— christopher intagliata, Scientific American, "Piano Lessons Tune Up Language Skills," 26 June 2018
But she was also pulled toward public service and working with children, volunteering at Boston Children’s Hospital and spending her free periods in high school teaching kindergartners.

— keach hagey, WSJ, "Shari Redstone’s Path to Power," 22 June 2018
The study counted kindergartners in 2015-16 in Texas and Pennsylvania, and 2016-17 in the other locations.

— todd ackerman, San Antonio Express-News, "Texas No. 1 'hotspot' for vaccine exemptions," 15 June 2018
Still, Missouri was one of 12 states where non-medical exemptions among kindergartners have risen since 2009.

— andy marso, kansascity, "Will measles be back? Vaccine exemption study says KC is a 'hotspot' for disease," 14 June 2018
Following an April 17 visit to the aquarium, about 15 kindergartners from a Chicago parochial school experienced norovirus-like symptoms, although none of the 52 students from St. Clement School ate food there, according to the Chicago Archdiocese.

— mike nolan, Daily Southtown, "Food at Shedd not reason more than 100 Andrew High students got sick after prom: health officials," 11 May 2018
In the video — now viewed over four million times on Facebook — the kindergartner articulated the frustration with violence in the city that police officers also share, said Lt.

— christina tkacik, baltimoresun.com, "6-year-old whose plea for peace went viral visits Baltimore police headquarters," 10 May 2018

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