Definitions for tutor

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tutor tu·tor

Spelling: [too-ter, tyoo-]

IPA: /ˈtu tər, ˈtyu-/

Tutor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in tutor (orttu).

Definitions for tutor

noun

1. a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
2. a teacher of academic rank lower than instructor in some American universities and colleges.
3. a teacher without institutional connection who assists students in preparing for examinations.
4. (especially at Oxford and Cambridge) a university officer, usually a fellow, responsible for teaching and supervising a number of undergraduates.
5. the guardian of a boy or girl below the age of puberty or majority.

verb (used with object)

1. to act as a tutor to; teach or instruct, especially privately.
2. to have the guardianship, instruction, or care of.
3. to instruct underhandedly; coach:
4. Archaic. to train, school, or discipline. to admonish or reprove.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a tutor or private instructor.
2. to study privately with a tutor.

Origin of tutor

1350-1400; Middle English Latin tūtor protector, equivalent to tū- (variant stem of tuērī to guard; see tutelage) + -tor -tor

Examples for tutor

He came to Weimar with a tutor to learn German when I happened to be living there.

I had no tutor to direct me or take any of the responsibility off me.

Day completely controlled her fate—he was employer, protector, and tutor all rolled into one.

She was the daughter of his Cambridge tutor—penniless, pretty, and musical.

I don't apprehend that a young nobleman ever broke his heart after his tutor.

Bialik credits a tutor she had when she was 15 for changing the trajectory of her life.

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.

He graduated at Yale college, and was subsequently a tutor in that institution.

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.