Dictionary Entry
tutor
tutor is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.
- 2noun
A treasurer; a keeper.
- 3noun
One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
- 4noun
A private or public teacher.
- 5noun
An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
- 6noun
An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
- 7transitive verb
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
- 8transitive verb
To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
- 9noun
a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
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- 10verb
be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction
"She tutored me in Spanish"
- 11verb
act as a guardian to someone
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