Tutee vs Tutor - What's the difference?
tutee | tutor |
A student of a tutor.
* 1927 , Edwin Deller, "The Contributors Column: Americanisms," American Speech , vol. 2, no. 4, p. 214,
* 2007 , Julie Winkelstein, "
One who teaches another (usually called a student'', ''learner'', or ''tutee ) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
(UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
(obsolete) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
(trading card games) A card that allows you to search your deck for one or more other cards.
To instruct or teach, especially to an individual or small group.
(trading card games) To search your deck for one or more other cards.
Tutor is a derived term of tutee.
Tutor is a related term of tutee.
As nouns the difference between tutee and tutor
is that tutee is a student of a tutor while tutor is one who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.As a verb tutor is
to instruct or teach, especially to an individual or small group.tutee
English
Noun
(en noun)- [Tutor and] tutee . English "pupil." I met this queer coinage in two academic publications.
Libraries help everyone into Internet age," Contra Costa Times (Califoronia), 23 Nov.,
- To make sure the pairings were good ones, both tutor and tutee filled out an application, indicating interests, computer proficiency, and even language.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----tutor
English
(wikipedia tutor)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor .
Derived terms
* tutee * tutorshipVerb
(en verb)- To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.