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Tutor   /tˈutər/   Listen
noun
Tutor  n.  One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically:
(a)
A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure."
(b)
(Civ. Law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
(c)
A private or public teacher.
(d)
(Eng. Universities) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
(e)
(Am. Colleges) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.



verb
Tutor  v. t.  (past & past part. tutored; pres. part. tutoring)  
1.
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. "Their sons are well tutored by you."
2.
To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.






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"Tutor" Quotes from Famous Books



... grave-digger in a quaint devotion to his friend's memory) has achieved an immortality denied to his "Effusions". Nothing having come of the "Effusions", Branwell, to his infinite credit, followed his sisters' example, and became tutor with a Mr. Postlethwaite. The irony of his situation pleased him, and he wrote to the Old Knave of Trumps thus: "I took a half-year's farewell of old friend whisky at Kendal on the night after I left. There was a party of gentlemen at the Royal Hotel, and I joined them. We ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair

... had three times postponed the appointed wedding-day, always retained the highest esteem for her, and left her a thousand pounds at his death. She also maintained a most friendly relation, as long as his increasing habit of intemperance allowed it, with her early tutor, Langhorne, the translator of Plutarch. On occasion of an anticipated visit from her, Langhorne wrote a very pretty ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... his mother's highly strung nervous nature. Melancholy, weak and sickly as a child, he was not expected to live. To avoid the damp and cold of English winters he was periodically taken to the south of France. Deemed too delicate for school, a private tutor was provided. Joining in sports or games was out of the question for so sensitive and delicate a youth,—what more natural, therefore, than that he should become a dreamer—a thinker? Too ill for any real study, his musical instincts drove him to the ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller

... Reverdy had to be placed in school and given a tutor. Before doing this I took him around the city, and we saw together some of the churches: S. Maria del Popolo, S. Giovanna dei Laterano, S. Angelo, S. Paolo. I took him to the Pantheon, the Coliseum, to St. Peter's, into the Vatican. Thus I gained my first impressions; and on these rounds I ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... of garden, and, with the bag, stops short, turns, and points out). Look at that gentleman coming up here. I'm sure it's your tutor. ...
— The Lady From The Sea • Henrik Ibsen


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