tutor
- a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- a teacher of academic rank lower than instructor in some American universities and colleges.
- a teacher without institutional connection who assists students in preparing for examinations.
- (especially at Oxford and Cambridge) a university officer, usually a fellow, responsible for teaching and supervising a number of undergraduates.
- the guardian of a boy or girl below the age of puberty or majority.
- to act as a tutor to; teach or instruct, especially privately.
- to have the guardianship, instruction, or care of.
- to instruct underhandedly; coach: to tutor a witness before he testifies.
- Archaic.
- to train, school, or discipline.
- to admonish or reprove.
- to act as a tutor or private instructor.
- to study privately with a tutor.
Origin of tutor
Synonym study
Related Words for tutor
lecturer, educator, instructor, teacher, mentor, educate, instruct, coach, preceptor, guardian, governor, grind, teach, guide, prof, discipline, school, edify, direct, updateExamples from the Web for tutor
Contemporary Examples of tutor
Her mother was illiterate, but she secured a tutor for both her sons and her daughters, and Juana could read by the age of 3.
Filming in Mexico City, where his tutor would supplement world-history lessons with trips to nearby Aztec ruins.
He was unnerved when he hired a grand master to tutor her in chess and, after a few months of lessons, she started beating Shaw.
Day completely controlled her fate—he was employer, protector, and tutor all rolled into one.
Bialik credits a tutor she had when she was 15 for changing the trajectory of her life.
Mayim Bialik On Her First Emmy Nomination, for ‘The Big Bang Theory’Maria Elena Fernandez
August 30, 2012
Historical Examples of tutor
I don't apprehend that a young nobleman ever broke his heart after his tutor.
Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
He graduated at Yale college, and was subsequently a tutor in that institution.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
He came to Weimar with a tutor to learn German when I happened to be living there.
Roden's CornerHenry Seton Merriman
She was the daughter of his Cambridge tutor—penniless, pretty, and musical.
The Coryston FamilyMrs. Humphry Ward
I had no tutor to direct me or take any of the responsibility off me.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
tutor
- a teacher, usually instructing individual pupils and often engaged privately
- (at universities, colleges, etc) a member of staff responsible for the teaching and supervision of a certain number of students
- Scots law the guardian of a pupilSee pupil 1 (def. 2)
- to act as a tutor to (someone); instruct
- (tr) to act as guardian to; have care of
- (intr) mainly US to study under a tutor
- (tr) rare to admonish, discipline, or reprimand
Word Origin for tutor
Word Origin and History for tutor
late 14c., "guardian, custodian," from Old French tutour "guardian, private teacher," from Latin tutorem (nominative tutor) "guardian, watcher," from tutus, variant past participle of tueri "watch over," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "senior boy appointed to help a junior in his studies" is recorded from 1680s.
1590s, from tutor (n.). Related: Tutored; tutoring.