tutor

Definition

  • noun: a teacher who works with one student
  • noun: a person charged with the instruction and guidance of another
  • verb: to teach a single student
  • verb: to have the guardianship, tutelage, or care of
  • synonyms: treasurer, keeper, guardian

Examples

  • She spent her evenings 'tutoring' her son in math. [=helping her son study math]

  • Some teachers stay after school to 'tutor' [='coach'] struggling students.

  • She earned extra money 'tutoring' in the evening.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness - I warrant your honour - Be not too tame neither Let your own discretion be your tutor Suit the action to the word, the word to the action With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature (..)
    2015 Hamlet