tutor

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtutɚ/

• Audio (US):

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  • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːtə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

• tutour (archaic)

tutor (plural tutors)

1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

   He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.

2. (UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (UK) A homeroom
4. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

• (one who teaches): preceptor

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.

   To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.

2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “tutor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tutor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

tutor (plural tutors)

1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
   • 1998 April 5, [email protected], “tutor ideas”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 9 May 2019, message-ID <<[email protected]>>:

     here are some tutor cards i thought would be interesting.

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.
   • 2002, David Seiler, “Type I -- What do you think about Wishes and how do you plan to break them?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Any instant that you move to the board can *only* be tutored for with Cunning Wish.

• Routt, Trout, trout

Borrowed from Latin tūtōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tuˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tuˈtoɾ]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tuˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tuˈtoɾ]

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutores)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

• tutela
• tutoria

• “tutor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “tutor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English tutor.

tutor

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) tutor (one who teaches)

From clipping of English tutorial.

tutor

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) tutorial

   上tutor [Cantonese]  ―  soeng⁵ tiu⁶ to¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to attend tutorial class

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
• John Gibbons (1987) “Code-mixing and code choice : a Hong Kong case study”, in Multilingual Matters (in Chinese), page 56

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu(ː)tor/, [ˈt̪u(ː)t̪o̞r]
• Rhymes: -utor
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧tor
• Hyphenation^(key): tu‧tor

tutor

1. alternative form of tuutori

• “tutor”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪uː.t̪or]

From tueor +‎ -tor, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).

tūtor m (genitive tūtōris, feminine tūtrīx); third declension

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Third-declension noun.

From tueor +‎ -tō, via the old past participle tūtus (later replaced by tuitus).

• tūtō

tūtor (present infinitive tūtārī or tūtārier, perfect active tūtātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to guard, protect, defend

   Synonyms: prōtegō, dēfendō, vindicō, salvō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, praeservō, arceō, servō, tegō, adsum, tueor, sustineō, teneō, adimō, prohibeō, mūniō, ēripiō

   Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō

2. to ward off, avert

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• Catalan: tudar
• Franco-Provençal: tuar
• Old French: tuer (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: tudar, tuar
  • Occitan: tuar
• Sardinian: tutare (Bitti)
• Vulgar Latin: *adtūtāre, *extūtāre, *distūtāre (see there for further descendants)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tutari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 13: To–Tyrus, page 449

• “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tutor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tutor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin tūtor, from tueor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utɔr
• Syllabification: tu‧tor

tutor m pers

1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

• tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin tūtōrem.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: tu‧tor

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)
3. (neologism) pet owner

   Synonym: dono

• → Tetum: tutór

• “tutor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

• IPA^(key): /tûːtor/
• Hyphenation: tu‧tor

tȗtor m anim (Cyrillic spelling ту̑тор)

1. tutor
2. guardian

• “tutor”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Latin tutorem.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtoɾ/ [t̪uˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: tu‧tor

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)
3. (horticulture) trellis

• “tutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta