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tutor

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1. tutor - Noun

2. tutor - Verb

3. Tutor - Proper noun

Meaning

One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.

A treasurer; a keeper.

One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

A private or public teacher.

An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.

An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.

To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke

Or maybe she decided that an evening with your old tutor would be blisteringly dull and opted for the more exhilarating course of washing her hair instead. Dear me, I know what I would have done. It's only lack of hair that forces me to pursue such a hectic social round these days. Douglas Adams

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep. Michael Jackson

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. Dichen Lachman

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor. Gene Wilder

Old foxes want no tutor. Vietnamese Proverb

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