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tutoring

tutoring is the present participle and gerund of tutor.

Meaning of tutor

Verb (1)

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

  1. (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.
    • To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To treat with authority or sternness.

Verb (2)

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

  1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.
    • Any instant that you move to the board can *only* be tutored for with Cunning Wish.2002, David Seiler, “Type I -- What do you think about Wishes and how do you plan to break them?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)

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Noun

tutoring (countable and uncountable, plural tutorings)

  1. tuition
    • And could she now have so forgotten all his tutorings, that she would give up father, brother—aye, and even her honor—for the sake of this man, whom she had known not yet half a year[…]1848, Henry Mayhew, The Image Of His Father: A Tale Of A Young Monkey

Forms of tutoring

pluraltutorings

Words formed from tutoring

Questions about tutoring

What does tutoring mean?
Tutoring means tuition.
What is tutoring the present participle and gerund of?
Tutoring is the present participle and gerund of tutor.
What part of speech is tutoring?
Tutoring is a noun.
What is the plural of tutoring?
The plural of tutoring is tutorings.

Words near tutoring in the dictionary

  1. tutorializes
  2. tutorializing
  3. tutorially
  4. tutorials
  5. tutories
  6. tutoring
  7. tutorings
  8. tutorise
  9. tutorised
  10. tutorises
  11. tutorising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tutoring (page history and authors); tutor (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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