kindergartner

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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: 11 Sep 2017

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

Students at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School in Joliet on Wednesday gathered for a special Mass to remember two kindergartners and their mother who died Monday in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide.

— alicia fabbre, Daily Southtown, "Mass remembers Joliet twins, mom who died in apparent murder-suicide," 30 Aug. 2017
Instead, a search warrant was obtained and officers armed with assault rifles conducted a raid on the couple’s home while their children, a seventh-grader and a kindergartner, were present.

— tony rizzo, kansascity, "Leawood couple’s lawsuit over mistaken police drug raid is reinstated after appeal," 25 July 2017
That would mean that about 38 percent of the district's approximately 1,130 kindergartners would have access to the program next year, according to district enrollment data.

— emily k. coleman, Lake County News-Sun, "Enrichment, not remediation: Waukegan's summer school includes kindergarten prep for preschoolers," 6 July 2017
A baby’s cry, a toddler’s hug, a kindergartner’s bid for independence — all of this reawakens dormant memories of how we were loved as children, memories with potential to haunt us like ghosts.

— lori gottlieb, The Cut, "What Your Therapist Really Thinks: ‘Am I Screwing Up My Children?’," 30 June 2017
A report from the California Department of Public Health shows that the vaccination rate among kindergartners rose from 92.8 percent to 95.6 percent in the year after the bill became law.

— joshua stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, "John Oliver revives Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher's debate with Deuce Bigalow," 26 June 2017
The bell-like sweetness of my kindergartner’s chatter seemed distant and hollow; depression was descending and distorting my world.

— leslie kendall dye, SELF, "My Gynecologist Wouldn’t Give Me an Elective Abortion—So I Broke Up With Her," 20 June 2017
All the comedy comes from the incongruity of a snaggletoothed kindergartner mimicking, with all her might, a grown woman’s yearning.

— wesley morris, New York Times, "How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’," 18 June 2017
All this in the same week that Megyn Kelly interviewed Alex Jones, a man who did not let the existence of the bodies of kindergartners stop him from questioning whether the Sandy Hook massacre happened.

— chris jones, chicagotribune.com, "Violence proceeds violence, and a doctor who 'shoudda' been heard," 16 June 2017

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