Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fee for instruction, especially at a formal institution of learning.
- n. Instruction; teaching.
- n. Archaic Guardianship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Guard; keeping; protection; guardianship.
- n. The particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.
- n. Instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning.
- n. The fee for instruction.
- n. Synonyms Tuition differs from the words compared under instruction chiefly in being a rather formal and business-like word: as, the charge for tuition is $100: it represents the act or series of acts, but not the art.
Wiktionary
- n. A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
- n. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- n. archaic Care, guardianship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
- n. The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- n. a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)
Etymologies
- From Old French, from Latin tuitiō ("guard, protection, defense"), from tuēri ("to watch, guard, see, observe"). Compare intuition, tutor. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English tuicion, protection, from Old French, from Latin tuitiō, tuitiōn-, from tuitus, past participle of tuērī, to protect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Vouchers, which will likely be passed under the euphemism "tuition tax credits," will enable public money to be poured into private schools, public school teachers will be paid on the basis of how their students do on poorly written standardized tests, teachers will be allowed to enter the field with fewer requirements since everyone knows that experienced teachers in the new way of thinking are a liability.”
“Many wore red hats embroidered with the word "tuition" -- tuition caps.”
“Some schools have what they call tuition installment plans.”
“The price of tuition is $325 and it runs from Monday night until the following Sunday morning.”
“Financial aid rankings came from school-reported data and student surveys, and factored in tuition, fees, room and board.”
“Yes Services Blackboard, digital recording of class sessions, course materials included in tuition and hand delivered, meeting rooms for business-related meetings School Services Does the program offer Career Services to EMBA Students?”
“The cost of going to school will increase, maybe not in tuition fees at first, but at least in opportunity costs.”
Support for Higher Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Even if you are a full-pay student at an expensive public college (say, University of Vermont for example whose tuition is nearly $10,000 per year), that $10,000 is well below the cost of educating a student at UVM.”
Teacher, teach thyself economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“After the 25% increase however, the cost of four years of tuition is greater than expected salary -- and that's to say nothing about room & board.”
The Huffington Post: Anya Kamenetz: Students in Virginia Rally to Fight 25% Tuition Increases
“We spent hours and hours in tuition – yet we could have learnt either language at school.”
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