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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#m1)

2) (UK school) A form tutor is the teacher who looks after a class in secondary school and takes the register. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#m2)

3) (university) A tutor teaches and guides students. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#m3)

4) To tutor means to teach someone in this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x1)
- Our form tutor reads the notices every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x2)
- She tutors younger kids in reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x3)
- A tutor helped him get ready for the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x4)
- We discussed the trip in tutor time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x5)
- Big sister tutored me in fractions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x6)
- The tutor charges £20 an hour; how much for 3 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x7)
- So one day he went to his tutor and said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tutor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.