Other forms: tutors
A tutor is a private teacher who helps one student at a time. Hire a tutor, a maths tutor, my personal tutor.
One-to-one teaching is the most effective form there is and the least affordable, which is the whole problem of education policy in one sentence. At university a personal tutor is an assigned adviser. Note that the Latin tutor means a guardian, from tueri, to watch over.
1nountutorA private teacher who helps one student at a time.
“Her parents hired a tutor to help her with maths before the exam.”
tutor is a teacher.
Latin tutor means a guardian or protector, from tueri, to watch over. Tuition and tutelage come from the same watching.
Latin
tūtor — a watcher, protector, guardian
Old French
tuteur
Middle English
tutour
English, today
tutor
Built from
From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA