The Japanese word for school, gakuen(がくえん、学園), means "learning garden" or "garden of learning".[3] The word school derives from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure" and also "that in which leisure is employed", but later "a group to whom lectures were given, school".[4][5][6][7] Kindergarten is a German whose literal meaning is "garden for the children", however the term was coined in the metaphorical sense of "place where children can grow in a natural way".