Tuition is the money paid for being taught, especially at university. Tuition fees, pay tuition, tuition costs.
The American sense is the money and the British sense is the teaching itself — private tuition means lessons, not payment, which trips people up in both directions. Note that the Latin means guardianship, from tueri, to watch over, the same root as tutor and intuition.
1nountuitionThe money paid for being taught.
“Her parents paid her tuition, but she had to cover her own rent.”
2nounteachingTeaching itself, in British use.
“He gives private tuition in maths to students preparing for exams.”
tuition is a payment, or teaching.
Also accepted in games: tuition fees, fees
The Latin is to watch over, the same watching in tutor. Tuition is what you pay to be watched over while you learn.
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Latin tuitio means guardianship, from tueri, to watch over. Tutor and intuition come from the same watching.
Latin
tuitiō — guard, protection, defense
Old French
tuicion
Anglo-Norman
tuycioun
English, today
tuition
Built from
From Anglo-Norman tuycioun, from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA