tutor
pronunciation
How to pronounce tutor in British English:
UK [ˈtjuːtə(r)]
How to pronounce tutor in American English:
US [ˈtuːtər]
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- Noun:
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting)
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- Verb:
- be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction
- act as a guardian to someone
Word Origin
- tutor
- tutor: [14] A tutor is etymologically someone who ‘looks after’ another – indeed, it was originally used for a ‘guardian’ or ‘protector’: ‘The king … behested himself to be a tutor and defender of him and of his’, Foundation of St Bartholomew’s church 1425. The word’s educational connotations are a secondary development. It comes via Anglo-Norman tutour from Latin tūtor, a derivative of tuērī ‘look after, protect’. From the same source comes English tuition [15], and also tutelage [17], which retains its original sense of ‘guardianship’.=> tuition, tutelage
- tutor (n.)
- late 14c., "guardian, custodian," from Old French tuteor "guardian, private teacher" (13c., Modern French tuteur), from Latin tutorem (nominative tutor) "guardian, watcher," from tutus, variant past participle of tueri "watch over," of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE *teue- (1) "pay attention to" (see thews). Specific sense of "senior boy appointed to help a junior in his studies" is recorded from 1680s.
- tutor (v.)
- 1590s, from tutor (n.). Related: Tutored; tutoring.
Example
- 1. Each pupil gets an individual online tutor .
- 2. An online tutor is about half the cost of traditional face-to-face coaching .
- 3. The researchers had the animated tutor and student disagree with each other on specific flaws .
- 4. The subjects watched an animated tutor and student discuss possible flaws in a scientific study .
- 5. No one could do any better by employing a tutor .