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{
"term": "kindergarten",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a school or class to prepare children aged five for school",
"labels": "(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "his first day at kindergarten"
},
{
"text": "James is in kindergarten now, but he's moving up to infant school this autumn."
},
{
"text": "She teaches reading to students in kindergarten."
},
{
"text": "She was still attending kindergarten at Assumption School."
},
{
"text": "their plans for Hannah to start all-day kindergarten"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["all-day", "full-day", "half-day"],
"verb + kindergarten": ["enter", "start", "attend"],
"kindergarten + noun": ["classroom", "class", "children"],
"preposition": ["at kindergarten", "in kindergarten"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "nursery school (= a school for children between the ages of about two and five)",
"labels": "(British English, Australian English, New Zealand English)",
"examples": [],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["all-day", "full-day", "half-day"],
"verb + kindergarten": ["enter", "start", "attend"],
"kindergarten + noun": ["classroom", "class", "children"],
"preposition": ["at kindergarten", "in kindergarten"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪndəɡɑːtn/",
"audio": "ki/kindergarten/kindergarten__gb_4.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɪndərɡɑːrtn/",
"audio": "ki/kindergarten/kindergarten__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘children's garden’."
}