tutorial
Americanadjective
noun
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tutorials
plural
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a class in which a tutor gives intensive instruction in some subject to an individual student or a small group of students.
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Computers.
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programmed instruction provided to a user at a computer terminal, often concerning the use of a particular software package and built into that package.
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a manual explaining how to use a particular software package or computer system.
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Etymology
Origin of tutorial
1735–45; < Latin tūtōri ( us ) of a guardian + -al 1
Explanation
A tutorial is a teaching session given to one student or a small group of students. If you are stuck in a class, you could use a tutorial. Teachers lead classes, but tutors are educators who also help students, usually one-on-one. Tutors don’t give grades: they just try to help or coach students. A session given by a tutor is called a tutorial. A tutorial could be a one-on-one session in a tutoring center or elsewhere. A tutorial could also be a small group led by a tutor, in which the tutor helps the whole group with math, history, or another topic.
Vocabulary lists containing tutorial
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My $1,330.13 suddenly seemed less like an achievement and more like a tutorial level.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
"I learned to tie a bow tie by watching a tutorial on YouTube," says Crawford.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
He arrived without a driver’s license, according to Christopher Simon Sykes’s biography of the artist, and barely passed the test after a skimpy tutorial on a friend’s pickup truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A few months and one tutorial from Anthropic’s Claude AI model later, Marks’s latest investment memo has the header “AI hurtles ahead.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
When she told me the ridiculous price the contractor had quoted her for replacing it, I went online to find a tutorial on how to lay tile.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
It felt both novel and immediately familiar — a post-pandemic child of all those sourdough starters and focaccia tutorials, but also just the latest person to rediscover an old truth.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
"I can't read instruction manuals, but I've watched YouTube tutorials," he says, generating a growling bass line that sounds like the dawning of the apocalypse.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of chess tutorials on TikTok and YouTube that teach me how to play better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
There are plenty of free budgeting apps, free balance-sheet templates, free retirement calculators and free YouTube tutorials.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Those nights, Jule put on headphones and curled up on her bed, practicing her accents from tutorials online.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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