Kindergarten
English Meaning
A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
- A program or class for four-year-old to six-year-old children that serves as an introduction to school.