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tutelage

UK/ˈtjuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈtjuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,956 of 15,258mostly written

Tutelage is teaching and guardianship given to a learner. Under his tutelage.

It nearly always appears in the phrase under the tutelage of somebody. Tutelage implies a personal relationship rather than a class, which is the difference from teaching.

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607 - 1674) (1607 - 1674) – artist (Dutch) Details on Google Art Project · Public domain

Definitions of tutelage

  1. 1nountutelageTeaching and guardianship given to a learner.C2

    “Four years under his tutelage made a musician of her.”

tutelage is a teaching.

Remember it

The Latin is to watch over, the same watching in tutor. To be under somebody's tutelage is to be watched over while you learn.

hooks ontotutor

Where it comes from

Latin tutela means protection, from tueri, to watch over.

Built from

  • tueor · Latin — to watch, guard

From tūtēla + age, from tueor (“to watch, guard”). See tuition.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

tutelage in the wild

  • A tutor, formally also called an academic tutor, is a person who provides assistance or tutelage to one or more people on certain subject areas or skills.

    Tutoring

  • Al-Aqsara'i studied medicine with his father, under whose tutelage he first read the Mujaz.

    Aqsara'i

  • The Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China was the constitutional law of the Republic of China during the tutelage period.

    Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China

  • According to Byrhtferth of Ramsey, King Edward the Martyr "had been instructed in holy scripture under the tutelage of Bishop Sideman".

    Sideman (bishop)

  • Major league baseball players Sam Bowen, Jason Bulger, and Scott MacRae all played under his tutelage.

    Tommy Thomas (baseball coach)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the tueor family

tutorintuition

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