prekindergarten

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adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectiveprekindergarten (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBefore kindergarten, or not yet old enough to attend it.
nounprekindergarten (countable and uncountable, plural prekindergartens)

plural prekindergartens

  1. UScountableuncountableThe first formal academic learning environment for children, before kindergarten.
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    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

Origin

From pre- + kindergarten.

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APA

prekindergarten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prekindergarten

MLA

“prekindergarten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prekindergarten. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prekindergarten,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prekindergarten.

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