Definitions for tutors

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tutors tu·tor

Spelling: [too-ter, tyoo-]

IPA: /ˈtu tər, ˈtyu-/

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

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in tutors (orsttu).

Definitions for tutors

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 tutors

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

Examples for tutors

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

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.

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

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

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

Filming in Mexico City, where his tutor would supplement world-history lessons with trips to nearby Aztec ruins.

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

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

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.

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