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Webster 1913 Edition


Tuition

Tu-i′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
tuitio
protection, guarding, from
tueri
, p. p.
tuitus
, to see, watch, protect: cf. F.
tuition
. Cf.
Tutor
.]
1.
Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
2.
Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction;
as, children are sent to school for
tuition
; his
tuition
was thorough.
3.
The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction;
as,
tuition
must be paid in full before graduation
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tuition

TUI'TION

,
Noun.
[L. tuitio, from tueor, to see, behold, protect, &c; L. duco, to lead.]
1.
Guardianship; superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.
2.
More especially, instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning. We place our children under the preceptors of academies for tuition. [This is now the common acceptation of the word.]
3.
The money paid for instruction. In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year.

Definition 2024


tuition

tuition

English

Noun

tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)

  1. (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
  2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
    • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
      Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. [] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. []
  3. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1 Scene 1:
      BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—
      CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—
      DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.
      BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

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  • tuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • tuition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911