tu|tor

tu|tor «TOO tuhr, TYOO-», noun, verb.

–n.

1. a person who is attached to a household or employed by a family as a private teacher: »

Those rich children had tutors instead of going to school.

2. a person (not necessarily professionally connected with a college, university, or school) engaged by students to help them prepare for examinations.

3. U.S. a teacher below the rank of instructor at a college or university.

4. a college official in an English university to whom students are assigned for advice and supervision.

5. (in Roman, civil, and Scots law) the guardian of a person legally incapable of managing his own affairs, especially a child under the age of puberty.

–v.t.

1. to give special or individual instruction to; teach; instruct: »

She was tutored at home during her long illness.

2. to instruct under discipline; school: »

The world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored (Shakespeare).

3. to admonish or reprove.

4. Obsolete. to take care or charge of.

–v.i.

1. Informal. to be taught by a tutor; study under a tutor: »

He is tutoring in algebra.

2. to act as tutor.

╂[< Latin tūtor, -ōris guardian < tuērī watch over]