Tuition
[tjuː'ɪʃ(ə)n] or [tʊ'ɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education); 'tuition and room and board were more than $25,000'.
Edited by Hugh--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
(n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.
(n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
Checker: Olga
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Instruction, teaching, education, training, schooling.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Teaching, training, discipline, schooling,[See PULL]
Checked by Dale
Definition
n. care over a young person: teaching the fee paid for such.—adj. Tui′tionary.
Typist: Margery
Examples
- I was not studious in habit, and probably did not make progress enough to compensate for the outlay for board and tuition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Whatever knowledge I may have of the electric light and power industry I feel I owe it to the tuition of Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In capital B's and H's most of the girls under Miss Peecher's tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She already knew his vocation was that of tuition. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I shall be very happy to learn under your tuition,' replied Mr. Winkle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have some notion of putting myself under her tuition. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- However this might be, the haughty Countess entrusted none with the secrets of her family-tuition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Noreen