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tu⋅i⋅tion

  [too-ish-uhn, tyoo-]
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–noun
1. the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
2. teaching or instruction, as of pupils: a school offering private tuition in languages.
3. Archaic. guardianship or custody.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME tuicion a looking after, guarding < L tuitiōn- (s. of tuitiō), equiv. to tuit(us) (ptp. of tuērī to watch; cf. tutelage ) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:
tu⋅i⋅tion⋅al, tu⋅i⋅tion⋅ar⋅y  [too-ish-uh-ner-ee, tyoo-] , adjective
tu⋅i⋅tion⋅less, adjective
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tu·i·tion   (tōō-ĭsh'ən, tyōō-)   
n.  

  1. A fee for instruction, especially at a formal institution of learning.

  2. Instruction; teaching.

  3. Archaic Guardianship.


[Middle English tuicion, protection, from Old French, from Latin tuitiō, tuitiōn-, from tuitus, past participle of tuērī, to protect.]
tu·i'tion·al, tu·i'tion·ar'y (-ĭsh'ə-něr'ē) adj.
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tuition 
1436, "protection, care, custody," from Anglo-Fr. tuycioun (1292), from O.Fr. tuicion "guardianship," from L. tuitionem (nom. tuitio) "a looking after, defense, guardianship," from tuitus, pp. of tueri "to look after" (see tutor). Meaning "action or business of teaching pupils" is recorded from 1582. The meaning "money paid for instruction" (1828) is probably short for tuition fees, in which tuition refers to the act of teaching and instruction.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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