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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



... see the last of me: Mr. Copeland, Mr. Church, Mr. Buckle, Mr. Pattison, and Mr. Lewis. Dr. Pusey too came up to take leave of me; and I called on Dr. Ogle, one of my very oldest friends, for he was my private tutor when I was an undergraduate. In him I took leave of my first college, Trinity, which was so dear to me, and which held on its foundation so many who had been kind to me both when I was a boy, and all through my Oxford life. Trinity had never been unkind to me. There used to be much snapdragon ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various

... shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith, we were confined under law, shut up unto the faith about to be revealed. Wherefore the law was our tutor [or schoolmaster] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come we are no longer under a ...
— God's Plan with Men • T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

... mean by thus enclosing him within those walls, adding, "If thou wilt plainly tell me this, of all thou shalt stand first in my favour, and I will make with thee a covenant of everlasting friendship." The tutor, himself a prudent man, knowing how bright and mature was the boy's wit and that he would not betray him, to his peril, discovered to him the whole matter the persecution of the Christians and especially of the anchorets decreed by the king, and how they were driven forth ...
— Barlaam and Ioasaph • St. John of Damascus

... no means penniless, the Presbytery seat, famous in ecclesiastical annals for its creed, crotchets, and conflicts; resonant, too, in profane history for its fifty drawbridges—the gift of the imagination and pawky Scotch humour of George Buchanan, Latinist, publicist, and tutor to that high and mighty Prince, the British Solomon, James I. of England and VI. of Scotland. The drawbridges are no more, for the "lang toon" is a burgh now, with a douce Provost of its own, and Bailies, and such like novel things ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... smiled with an assumption of cheerful ease, "but I see no necessity just yet for binding Seth Davis over to keep the peace. Tell me about yourself, Rupe. I hope Uncle Ben doesn't think of changing his young tutor with his ...
— Cressy • Bret Harte


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