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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)
6.
to act as a tutor to; teach or instruct, especially privately.
7.
to have the guardianship, instruction, or care of.
8.
to instruct underhandedly; coach: to tutor a witness before he testifies.
9.
Archaic.
a.
to train, school, or discipline.
b.
to admonish or reprove.
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verb (used without object)
10.
to act as a tutor or private instructor.
11.
to study privately with a tutor.
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tutor
late 14c., "guardian, custodian," from O.Fr. tutour "guardian, private teacher," from L. tutorem (nom. tutor) "guardian, watcher," from tutus, variant pp. of tueri "watch over," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "senior boy appointed to help a junior in his studies" is recorded from 1680s. The verb
EXPANDis attested from 1590s; tutorial (adj.) is recorded from 1742; as a noun it is attested from 1923.
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