tutor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who teaches one student or a small group, often privately.

   He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.

2. 2
   verb

   To teach a person or small group, especially privately.

   To pay her tuition, the student began to tutor teenagers in math.

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

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