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tutress

tutress is the obsolete spelling of tutoress.

Meaning of tutoress

Noun

tutoress (plural tutoresses)

  1. (dated) A female tutor.
    • I offer ſubſcription; but always vnder reformation of that moſt honored Tutreſſes Pupils, which ſhall (omitting fabulous traſh) iudiciouſly inſtruct otherwiſe.1612, [John Selden], “The Eleuenth Song. Illustrations.”, in Michael Drayton, edited by [John Selden], Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other...
    Synonyms:
    instructress, tutrix

Forms of tutress

pluraltutresses

Origin of tutress

Adaptation of Middle French tutreisse, tuteresse, or from Latin tūtrix by change of ending. Equivalent to tutor + -ess.

Questions about tutress

What is tutress the obsolete spelling of?
Tutress is the obsolete spelling of tutoress.

Words near tutress in the dictionary

  1. tutoyered
  2. tutoyering
  3. tutoyers
  4. tutoying
  5. tutoys
  6. tutress
  7. tutresses
  8. tutrice
  9. tutrices
  10. tutrix
  11. tutrixes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tutress (page history and authors); tutoress (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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