tutorial

C2+ Topic:Word Formation & Derivatives

US /tuˈtɔriəl/ UK /tjuːˈtɔːriəl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a session or guide giving instruction in a particular subject

He followed an online tutorial to learn the software.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a session or guide giving... lesson guide instructionwalkthroughclass seminar

Word family

Etymology

From Late Latin tutorius ('of a guardian or tutor'), from Latin tutor ('guardian, protector'), from tueri ('to watch over'), + the suffix -al.

tutor Latin tueri Latin

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Topics

Word Formation & Derivatives General Vocabulary

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# tutorial

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /tuˈtɔriəl/
**IPA (UK):** /tjuːˈtɔːriəl/

## Meanings
1. a session or guide giving instruction in a particular subject

## Examples
- He followed an online tutorial to learn the software.

## Synonyms
- lesson
- guide
- instruction
- walkthrough
- class
- seminar

## Related Forms
- tutor
- tutelage
- tuition

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tutor
- Root: tueri

## Etymology
From Late Latin tutorius ('of a guardian or tutor'), from Latin tutor ('guardian, protector'), from tueri ('to watch over'), + the suffix -al.

## AI Etymology
Tutorial comes from Late Latin tutorius ('of a guardian or tutor'), from Latin tutor ('guardian, protector'), from tueri ('to watch over'), + the suffix -al. The historical chain includes Latin tutor and Latin tueri. The quoted older senses, "of a guardian or tutor", "guardian, protector", and "to watch over", supply the semantic anchors for tutorial. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word tutorial carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a session or guide giving instruction in a particular subject". Related English forms include tutor, tutelage, and tuition. The result is a noun and adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- General Vocabulary

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