TUTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tutor mean? 

• TUTOR (noun)
  The noun TUTOR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TUTOR used as a noun is very rare.

• TUTOR (verb)
  The verb TUTOR has 2 senses:

1. be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction

2. act as a guardian to someone

  Familiarity information: TUTOR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coach; private instructor; tutor

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))

• TUTOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tutor    ... he / she / it tutors   
Past simple: tutored   
Past participle: tutored   
-ing form: tutoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She tutored me in Spanish

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)

 Context examples 

Mr. Brooke, my tutor, doesn't stay here, you know, and I have no one to go about with me, so I just stop at home and get on as I can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Saturn is even-handed, always giving each member of a sign (in this case Cancer) exactly the same amount of direct tutoring.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He thought the tutor must return by the main gate and that he would see him.

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

“My dear tutor,” said I (now, really, without any nonsense), “to whom I owe more obligations already than I ever can acknowledge—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I desired leave of this prince to see the curiosities of the island, which he was graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my tutor to attend me.

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

This may include special class placement, extra help with class assignments and tests, tutoring, and other services such as counseling, speech therapy, and physical therapy.

(IEP, NCI Dictionary)

When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry, it always took the shape of measuring heights.

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

And I was quite right: depend on that: there are a thousand reasons why liaisons between governesses and tutors should never be tolerated a moment in any well-regulated house; firstly—Oh, gracious, mama!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Brooke? That boy's tutor? Ah! I understand now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)