different between kindergartner vs kindergartener

English

Alternative forms

• kindergartener (less common)

Etymology

kindergarten +? -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nd????rtn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd?????tn?/
• Hyphenation: kin?der?gart?ner

Noun

kindergartner (plural kindergartners)

1. A child who attends a kindergarten.
2. (rare) A person who teaches at a kindergarten.
   • 1887, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School:

     But the heart is generally larger than the creed, as was once strikingly evidenced to me by Louisa Frankenberg, a dear, devout old German kindergartner, who had learned the art of kindergartning [...]

   • 1997, Barbara Beatty, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children:

     The book that laid the groundwork for this new ideology was written by a German kindergartner who had emigrated to America in the late 1860s.

   • 1999, Richard J. Altenbaugh, Historical Dictionary of American Education, page 48:

     She went to New York City in 1872 to train under German kindergartner Maria Kraus-Boelte[.]

Translations

English

Noun

kindergartener (plural kindergarteners)

1. (less common) Alternative form of kindergartner