tutor

«tutor» in Mova's school dictionary: a teacher who teaches one pupil or a small group, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a tutor, tutors); verb (tutor, tutors, tutored, tutoring)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tutor is a teacher who teaches one pupil or a small group, often at home or after school. tree →

2) (UK school) A form tutor is the teacher who looks after a class in secondary school and takes the register. tree →

3) (university) A tutor teaches and guides students. tree →

4) To tutor means to teach someone in this way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children may have a maths or reading tutor. In UK schools, «tutor time» or «tutor group» is the start-of-day class meeting. Phrases: «private tutor», «form tutor», «tutor group», «maths tutor», «tutor time».

examples

• My tutor comes on Wednesdays to help with spelling. tree →
• Our form tutor reads the notices every morning. tree →
• She tutors younger kids in reading. tree →
• A tutor helped him get ready for the test. tree →
• We discussed the trip in tutor time. tree →
• Big sister tutored me in fractions. tree →
• The tutor charges £20 an hour; how much for 3 hours? tree →
• So one day he went to his tutor and said: tree →

note

Countable noun; verb tutored, tutoring. Spelling ends -or (like doctor, actor). Related: tutorial (a lesson, or step-by-step guide such as a video tutorial).

In the corpora

• Using AI to understand an idea, then doing the work yourself, is like having a patient tutor.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tutor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.