Definition of tutors Tutors
/tuˈtɚz/ - [tuterz] -
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What does tutors mean?
Wiktionary 
- tutors (Noun)
Plural of tutor.
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| tutor - be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction; "She tutored me in Spanish" | ||
| teach, instruct, learn accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents" | ||
| tutor - act as a guardian to someone | ||
| interrelate, relate place into a mutual relationship; "I cannot interrelate these two events" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tutor (n.)
One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. - tutor (n.)
A treasurer; a keeper. - tutor (n.)
One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. - tutor (n.)
A private or public teacher. - tutor (n.)
An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline. - tutor (n.)
An instructor of a lower rank than a professor. - tutor (v. t.)
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. - tutor (v. t.)
To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tutor
tū′tor, n. one who looks to or takes care of: one who has charge of the education of another: one who hears the lessons of and examines students: a teacher: (Scots law) a guardian of the person as well as of the estate of a boy under fourteen, or girl under twelve:—fem. Tū′toress.—v.t to instruct: to treat with authority or sternness.—n. Tū′torage, the office or authority of a tutor: education, as by a tutor.—adj. Tutō′rial, belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.—adv. Tutō′rially.—ns. Tū′toring; Tū′torism, Tū′torship; Tū′trix, a female guardian. [L. tutor, a guardian—tuēri, tuitus, to look to.]
Wikipedia 
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In British, Australian, New Zealand, and some Canadian universities, a tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer who conducts a seminar for undergraduate students. These seminars are often known as a tutorial. In the United States and the rest of Canada, a tutor is known as a teaching assistant.
Secondary school form tutors.
In English and Irish secondary schools, form tutors are similar to American home room teachers. They are in charge of a group of students in a particular year group.
Peer Tutoring.
In the United States, tutors are students teaching other students of the same or similar age or grade level. When peer tutors are trained how to tutor correctly, peer tutoring is both academically and cost effective.
