tuition
pronunciation
How to pronounce tuition in British English:
UK [tjuˈɪʃn]
How to pronounce tuition in American English:
US [tuˈɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)
- teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
Word Origin
- tuition (n.)
- early 15c., "protection, care, custody," from Anglo-French tuycioun (13c.), Old French tuicion "guardianship," from Latin tuitionem (nominative tuitio) "a looking after, a caring for, watching over, protection, guardianship," from tuitus, past participle of tueri "to look after" (see tutor (n.)). Meaning "action or business of teaching pupils" is recorded from 1580s. The meaning "money paid for instruction" (1828) probably is short for tuition fees, in which tuition refers to the act of teaching and instruction (a sense attested from 1580s).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Tuition fees are sensitive for the coalition government .
- 2. Private schools offering supplementary english tuition have mushroomed .
- 3. The tuition is a big expense .
- 4. Why is tuition so expensive today ?
- 5. Will tuition costs continue to skyrocket ?