TUTELAGE

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

tuition; tutelage; tutorship

Hypernyms ("tutelage" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Derivation:

tutor (be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attention and management implying responsibility for safety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

care; charge; guardianship; tutelage

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)

Derivation:

tutor (act as a guardian to someone)

 Context examples 

Under the tutelage of the mad god, White Fang became a fiend.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is becoming clear that you have been in training to be a leader, and to that end, Saturn arrived to help to widen and enhance your tutelage.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)