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TUTOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)

Synonyms:

coach; private instructor; tutor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tutor" is a kind of...):

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Domain category:

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tutor"):

crammer (a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations)

Derivation:

tutorial (of or relating to tutors or tutoring)

tutorship (teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction

Example:

She tutored me in Spanish

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "tutor" is one way to...):

instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tutelage (teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act as a guardian to someone

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "tutor" is one way to...):

interrelate; relate (be in a relationship with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tutelage (attention and management implying responsibility for safety)

Credits

 Context examples: 

An instant later the tutor returned, bringing with him the student.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those readers born January 10-19 will have more tutoring from Saturn in 2020, but by year’s end, December 2020, you will be finished with Saturn for the next three decades.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“My son's tutor is a conscientious gentleman; and if I had not implicit reliance on my son, I should have reliance on him.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We did; and, Tedo, you know, I helped you in prosecuting (or persecuting) your tutor, whey-faced Mr. Vining—the parson in the pip, as we used to call him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We sat together four hours, in which time I wrote down a great number of words in columns, with the translations over against them; I likewise made a shift to learn several short sentences; for my tutor would order one of my servants to fetch something, to turn about, to make a bow, to sit, or to stand, or walk, and the like.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The unfortunate tutor was certainly in a state of pitiable agitation when we found him in his chambers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On July 1 this year, Saturn will return to Capricorn to finish out his tutoring of you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported, he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place; neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He keeps his grandson shut up, when he isn't riding or walking with his tutor, and makes him study very hard.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)