TUTELAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does tutelage mean?
• TUTELAGE (noun)
The noun TUTELAGE has 2 senses:
1. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
2. attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Familiarity information: TUTELAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TUTELAGE (noun)
Meaning:
Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
tutelage; tutorship; tuition
Hypernyms ("tutelage" is a kind of...):
instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)
Meaning:
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
guardianship; tutelage; care; charge
Context example:
he is in the care of a bodyguard
Hypernyms ("tutelage" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tutelage"):
due care; ordinary care; reasonable care (the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty)
foster care (supervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home)
great care (more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons)
providence (the guardianship and control exercised by a deity)
slight care (such care as a careless or inattentive person would exercise)
