prekindergartenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

prekindergarten (not comparable)

1. Before kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.

名詞

prekindergarten (countable and uncountable, plural prekindergartens)

1. (US) The first formal academic learning environment for children, before kindergarten.
   • 2008 June 6, Jennifer Medina, “Parents Find Frustration With Process at Schools”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2021-02-11:

     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.

参考

• pre-K