tutor

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: tu=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

tutor, 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.  [1913 Webster]

tutor, v. t. 

•  To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.  [1913 Webster]

  "Their sons are well tutored by you."  [1913 Webster]
•  To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tutor, n. & v.
--n.
1 a private teacher, esp. in general charge of a person's education.
2 a university teacher supervising the studies or welfare of assigned undergraduates.
3 Brit. a book of instruction in a subject.
--v.
1 tr. act as a tutor to.
2 intr. work as a tutor.
3 tr. restrain, discipline.
4 intr. US receive tuition.

Derivative

tutorage n. tutorship n.

Etymology

ME f. AF, OF tutour or L tutor f. tueri tut- watch

THESAURUS

tutor

Privatdocent, Privatdozent, advise, assistant, assistant professor, associate, associate professor, coach, coacher, cram, cram with facts, crammer, direct, drill, educate, educator, emeritus, enlighten, ground, guide, guru, indoctrinate, instruct, instructor, lecturer, mentor, prepare, prime, private instructor, professor, professor emeritus, reader, retired professor, school, stuff with knowledge, teach, teacher, train, tutorer, visiting professor

ROGET THESAURUS

tutor

Physical Sensibility

VB be sensible of, feel, perceive, render sensible, sharpen, cultivate, tutor, cause sensation, impress, excite an impression, produce an impression.

Teaching

VB teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.

Teacher

N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.