a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
<noun.person> [ verb ]
be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction
<verb.communication> She tutored me in Spanish
act as a guardian to someone
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Tutor \Tu"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tutored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tutoring}.] 1. To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
Their sons are well tutored by you. --Shak.
2. To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity. --Addison.
Tutor \Tu"tor\, n. [OE. tutour, L. tutor, fr. tueri to watch, defend: cf. F. tuteur. Cf. {Tuition}.] 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.'' --Piers Plowman. (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.
Five minutes later his tutor was able to assure me that the sixth-former in question would be reading English at Cambridge. That academic intensity will deter some parents, and attract many.
A Lambeth housing director, the late Harry Simpson, was an early mentor and tutor in the ways of winning friends and influencing the opposition.
Who was going to tutor Britain's pugnacious education supremo on Mexican lessons for Britain's school kids?
He was divorced from Annapurna Devi, the daughter of his musical tutor, Allauddin Khan.
"They had a tutor at the studio for me.
He's known for his use of Lego blocks to tutor elementary school children in physics and spatial geometry.
Math nearly ended high school for him until Rivera found the right tutor, Nieves said.
In 'A Farmhouse by a River', he is emulating his first tutor, JT 'Antiquity' Smith, borrowing the drawing master's looping pen and ink line and his taste for coloured tints.
Jerusalem police closed three private schools established to tutor students from the occupied lands whose universities have been closed by Israeli military authorities, Israel radio reported.
Milken had set up a math club for children at the school, showed up to tutor them himself, once brought along pop star Michael Jackson, and gave the children T-shirts, calculators and circus tickets.
As a part-time teacher and tutor in the public-school system and the father of three teen-agers, I believe Mr. Maeroff's contention that there are two other "Rs" left out of our debates is absolutely correct.
Practice makes perfect in piano playing, especially when the tutor is a computer.
Mrs. Vining, who had worked with the Philadelphia-based Quaker peace organization, the American Friends Service Committee, became Akihito's tutor in October 1946 when the crown prince was nearly 13 and continued in that role until December 1950.
A business-administration tutor in Chengdu, who graduated from a Canadian M.B.A. program, complains, "In Canada, I worked 'round the clock.
It also helps ensure that pupils are kept on track. St Paul's school in Barnes, west London, the top A-level school in the FT survey, has a similar approach to ensuring that every pupil is known very well by at least one tutor.
The luxury of Olympias's care ended when Philip appointed the Spartan Leonidas as tutor, a believer in cold baths at daybreak.