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tutelages

tutelages is the plural of tutelage.

Meaning of tutelage

Noun

tutelage (countable and uncountable, plural tutelages)

  1. The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.
    • the king's right of seigniory and tutelage
  2. The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; the care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
  3. Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.
    • Taught from their cradle-bed to know
      The bitter tutelage of wo,
      No idle fears in their bosoms glow,
      But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance,
      As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance.1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Missolonghi, page 187
    Synonyms:
    tutorage, tutorship

Questions about tutelages

What is tutelages the plural of?
Tutelages is the plural of tutelage.

Words near tutelages in the dictionary

  1. tute
  2. tutee
  3. tutees
  4. tutela
  5. tutelage
  6. tutelages
  7. tutelar
  8. tutelaric
  9. tutelarie
  10. tutelaries
  11. tutelarily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tutelages (page history and authors); tutelage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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