tutor

The definition of a tutor is a personal teacher, a teaching assistant or someone who helps a student catch up in a subject.

(noun)

An example of a tutor is someone who teaches a teenage celebrity.
An example of a tutor is a teacher who assists a college professor with their teaching duties.
An example of a tutor is an expert in writing who helps a student who is struggling with English class.

To tutor is to give someone personalized instruction.

(verb)

An example of tutor is to work with a student in math.

See tutor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. a teacher who gives individual instruction to a student; private teacher
2. a person who gives remedial or supplemental instruction to another
a legal guardian of a minor
in English universities, a college official in charge of the studies of an undergraduate
☆ in some American universities and colleges, a teacher ranking below an instructor; teaching assistant

Origin: ME < MFr tuteur < L tutor < tutus for tuitus, pp. of tueri, to look after, guard

transitive verb

intransitive verb

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See tutor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. A private instructor.
b. One that gives additional, special, or remedial instruction.
A teacher or teaching assistant in some universities and colleges having a rank lower than that of an instructor.
A graduate, usually a fellow, responsible for the supervision of an undergraduate at some British universities.
Law The legal guardian of a minor and of the minor's property.

verb tu·tored, tu·tor·ing, tu·tors

verb, transitive