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tuition
/tuˈɪʃən/
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What does tuition mean?
noun
- The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
- A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) Care, guardianship.
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IPA pronunciation
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Her perplexity as to where tuition and books were to come from was worse but she did not feel quite so badly.
I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever.
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Under the Canon's tuition I learnt to distinguish the "third," which is at times quite strident, but the "fifth" nearly always eludes me.
Patience and perseverance, with a due mixture of kindness and correction, will, however, accomplish a great deal in the tuition of the well-bred spaniel.
I was placed under the tuition of a leading teacher called Knight, whose school-room was in the upper storey of a house in George Street.