prekindergarten
nounEtymology From pre- + kindergarten.
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US 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 and centralized the dizzying array of admission procedures for the city’s prekindergartens and middle schools.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:
- Derived terms
- prekindergartener
- Related terms
- pre-K