(in Britain and Australia) an establishment where children below the age of compulsory education play and learn; a nursery school

on the weekdays when I drop off my daughter at kindergarten, I will make breakfast for her

she qualified as a kindergarten teacher

(in North America) a class or school that prepares children, usually five- or six-year-olds, for the first year of formal education

arriving at kindergarten ready to learn is vitally important

among his friends were many he had known since kindergarten