tutor
/ˈtjuːtəː/ verb C2- To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group. · To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
He/she/it tutors · Past tutored · Past participle tutored · -ing form tutoring
Verb forms
- Base form
- tutor
- He/she/it
- tutors
- Past
- tutored
- Past participle
- tutored
- -ing form
- tutoring
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I was tutor to his nephews, who are dead; and when he was alone in the world, I tried by absolute devotion to his will, to make up to him all he had done for me during ten years of unremitting kindness.
“‘When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry, it always took the shape of measuring heights.
Then in the long days on board ship, when the vessel, gliding on with security over the azure sea, required no care but the hand of the helmsman, thanks to the favorable winds that swelled her sails, Edmond, with a chart in his hand, became the instructor of Jacopo, as the poor Abbé Faria had been his tutor.
His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tutor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man’s ability to make the undertaking a success.
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