tuition
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.tu·ition
noun \tə-ˈwi-shən, tyu̇-\Definition of TUITION
1
archaic : custody, guardianship
2
: the act or profession of teaching : instruction <pursued his studies under private tuition>
3
: the price of or payment for instruction
— tu·ition·al \-ˈwish-nəl, -ˈwi-shə-nəl\ adjective
See Examples of TUITION
- Her uncle agreed to pay part of her tuition.
- There's going to be a tuition increase next year.
- Before the company transferred her to Mexico, they offered her private tuition in Spanish.
Origin of TUITION
Middle English tuicioun protection, from Anglo-French, from Latin tuition-, tuitio, from tueri to look at, look after
First Known Use: 15th century
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Rhymes with TUITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, volition
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