an establishment where children below the age of compulsory education play and learn; a nursery school 幼儿园 ■(in North America) a class or school that prepares children, usually five- or six-year-olds, for the first year of formal education (北美)学前班,幼儿园
派生 kindergartener noun 语源
mid 19th cent.: from German, literally children's garden'