tuition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   teaching pupils individually, usually by a tutor hired privately

   As our child was falling behind in school, we started tuition.

2. 2
   noun

   a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)

   tuition and room and board were more than $25,000

3. 3
   noun

   The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

   Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

4. 4
   noun

   Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

   tuition classes

5. 5
   noun

   A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

   The school’s tuition will increase by five percent next year.

6. 6
   noun

   Care, guardianship.

   BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you— CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,— DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick. BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.