different between tutor vs school

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tut?/
• • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?t?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin t?tor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

Alternative forms

• tutour (archaic)

Noun

tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)

1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

2. (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

Synonyms

• (one who teaches): preceptor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

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.

2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tutor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

Noun

tutor (plural tutors)

1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Routt, Trout, trout

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tu?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tu?to?/

Noun

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoria

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Noun

tutor

1. tutor (person)

Declension

Anagrams

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]

Etymology 1

From tueor +? -tor, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Noun

t?tor m (genitive t?t?ris, feminine t?tr?x); third declension

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From tueor +? -t?, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Verb

t?tor (present infinitive t?t?r? or t?t?rier, perfect active t?t?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I guard, protect, defend

Conjugation

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

Descendants

References

• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tutor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

From English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin t?tor, from tueor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.t?r/

Noun

tutor m pers

1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) tutorski

Further reading

• tutor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Noun

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?tor/
• Hyphenation: tu?tor

Noun

t?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tutor
2. guardian

Declension

References

• “tutor” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?to?/, [t?u?t?o?]

Noun

tutor m or f (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoría

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko?ol, IPA^(key): /sku?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).

Alternative forms

• skull (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

2. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

   The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

3. A multitude.

Synonyms

• (fish): shoal

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Etymology 2

From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school₁. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).

Alternative forms

• schole (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

1. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

2. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

4. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

5. An art movement, a community of artists.

   The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.

7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

   He was a gentleman of the old school.

   • 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman

     His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Synonyms

• (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
• (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:school

Coordinate terms

• (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
   • 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,

     A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.

   • 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,

     "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."

     "This time I'm gonna school you."

3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Derived terms

• schooling

Translations

Further reading

• school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cholos

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sxo?l/
• Hyphenation: school
• Rhymes: -o?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
2. A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
3. Any organisation providing instruction.
4. A movement or stylistic trend.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: skool
  • ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? N?uu: skool
  • ? Sotho: sekolo
  • ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
  • ? Tsonga: xikolo
  • ? Venda: tshikolo
  • ? Xhosa: isikolo
  • ? Zulu: isikole
• ? Papiamentu: skol
• ? Sranan Tongo: skoro

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.

Derived terms

• samenscholen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

school

1. singular past indicative of schuilen
2. first-person singular present indicative of scholen
3. imperative of scholen