Tuition: Definition and part of speech

Tuition

  1. n. The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
  2. n. Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
  3. n. Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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