tuition

noun

tu·​ition tə-ˈwi-shən 

tyu̇-

1

: the price of or payment for instruction

2

: the act or profession of teaching : instruction

pursued his studies under private tuition

3

archaic : custody, guardianship

tuitional

tə-ˈwi-sh(ə-)nəl 

tyu̇-

adjective

Synonyms of tuition

• education
• teaching
• schooling
• instruction

Examples of tuition in a Sentence

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.

Recent Examples on the Web

Abdullah the traveled to a flight school in the Philippines to train as a commercial pilot, and his tuition was paid for by al-Shabaab, officials say. —Irene Wright, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025

Now, those symbols of economic progress — mortgages and car payments, property taxes and tuition costs — are bills that thousands of Tyson workers won’t have an income to pay. —Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025

Windward’s tuition is roughly seventy-six thousand dollars a year, and other private dyslexia programs cost about as much. —David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

The accelerated program saved Elena and her family approximately $80,000 in tuition, books and additional fees. —Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Middle English tuicioun protection, from Anglo-French, from Latin tuition-, tuitio, from tueri to look at, look after

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Rhymes for tuition

• addition
• admission
• ambition
• attrition
• audition
• clinician
• cognition
• coition
• commission
• condition
• contrition
• dentition

Kids Definition

tuition

noun

tu·​ition t(y)u̇-ˈish-ən 

: money paid for instruction (as at a college)