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Tutelage

Definition: Tutelage

Tutelage

Noun

1. Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately).

2. Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is under the care of a physician".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tutelage" was first used: 1605. (references)

Etymology: Tutelage \Tu"te*lage\, noun. [Latin expression tutela protection, from tutus safe, from tueri to watch, defend. Compare to Tuition.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Tutelage

Synonyms: care (n), charge (n), guardianship (n), tuition (n), tutorship (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tutelage

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Learning

Apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation.

Safety

Guardianship, wardship, wardenship; tutelage, custody, safekeeping; preservation; protection, auspices.

Subjection

Service; servitude, servitorship; tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship; liability; constraint; oppression; (severity); yoke; (means of restraint); submission; obedience.

Teacher

Tutelage; (teaching).

Teaching

Noun: teaching;Verb: instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tutelage

English words defined with "tutelage": mandate, mandatoryTutele. (references)
Etymologies containing "tutelage": Tutele. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tutelage

DomainTitle

Books

  • Political tutelage and democracy in Turkey The free party and its aftermath (reference)

  • The White Arctic : anthropological essays on tutelage and ethnicity (reference)

  • What Is the Indian 'Problem' Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Administration (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Tutelage

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tutelage

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Niger

Some ethnic groups allowed families to enter into marriage agreements on the basis of which young girls from rural areas were sent by the age of 10 or 12 and sometimes younger to join their husband's family under the tutelage of their mother-in-law. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

With the exception of Napoleon's 4-year tutelage of parts of Slovenia and Croatia--the "Illyrian Provinces"--Slovenia was part of the Hapsburg empire from the 14th century until 1918. Nevertheless, Slovenia resisted Germanizing influences and retained its unique Slavic language and culture. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

Sanctions are increased in cases in which the victim is a minor; in which violence or intimidation is used; if deception or abuse of authority is involved; if the victim is related or under the tutelage of the perpetrator; if advantage is taken of a victim's circumstances or handicap; or if the action is of a recurring nature. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tutelage

"Tutelage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tutelage" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Tutelage

Expression using "tutelage": under the tutelage of. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tutelage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tutelage

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tutelage

Language Translations for "tutelage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tutelë (guarding, wardship), mbrojtje (advocacy, aegis, apology, assertion, Buckler, championship, conservation, cover, defence, defense, keeping, patronage, protection, rampart, safeguard, security, umbrella), mbikëqyrje (attendance, leading strings, observation, stakeout, superintendence, supervision, surveillance), mësimdhënie (instruction, teaching). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نفوذ (authority, clout, in, influence, leverage, potency, power, prestige, purchase, reign, standing, weight, weightiness), ‏وصاية (custody, guardianship, mandate, trusteeship, ward), ‏تأثير (action, affection, effect, effectiveness, hold, impact, impress, leverage, lobbying, prestige, puissance, pull, virtue), ‏إرشاد (direction, guidance, instruction, precept, steer, tip, tutorship). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ръководство (administration, conduct, direction, directory, governance, guidance, guide, handbook, lead, leadership, management, running, supervision, textbook, tutorage, tutorship), обучение (education, exercise, grounding, instruction, teaching, training, tuition), опекунство (guardianship, tutorage, tutorship, wardship), настойничество (tutorship, ward, wardship), положение под настойничество. (various references)

   

Czech

  

poruènictví (custody, guardianship, lieutenancy), opatrovnictví (trusteeship). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wettelijke voogdij (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother), opgedragen voogdij (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), onder curatele stellen (putting a child in tutelage, to deprive by declaration of court a prodigal or lunatic of the control over his property and establishing a guardianship(wardship)), datieve voogdij (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

للگی (Pedagogy), قیمومت (Mandate, Patronage, Protectorate), تعلیم سرخانه , سرپرستی (Patronage, Protectorate, Supervision). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuomioistuimen perustama holhous (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), lakimääräinen holhous (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother), julistaa holhottavaksi (putting a child in tutelage, to deprive by declaration of court a prodigal or lunatic of the control over his property and establishing a guardianship(wardship)), holhouslautakunnan perustama holhous (tutelage established by the court or by the board of guardians), asettaa holhouksenalaiseksi (putting a child in tutelage, to deprive by declaration of court a prodigal or lunatic of the control over his property and establishing a guardianship(wardship)). (various references)

   

French

  

tutelle (tutorship). (various references)

   

German

  

Vormundschaft (guardianship, wardship). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κηδεμονία (charge, custody, guardianship, trusteeship, tutorage), διδασκαλία (teaching, tuition). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אפוטרופוסות (custodian, guardianship, wardage). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyámság (guardianship, trusteeship, ward, wardship), gyámkodás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tutela (buckram, defence, defense, Foster, guardianship, protection, safeguard, ward, wardship). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

師門 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しも" (city gate, enquiry, examination, fingerprint, interview, question). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utelagetay

   

Portuguese

  

tutela (custody, guardianship, protectorship, pupilage, tutorage, ward, wardship), período de tuleta. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tutelã (guardianship, tutorship, ward). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обучение (drill, drilling, indoctrination, instruction, learning by insight, nurture, schooling, teaching, tirocinium, training, tuition, tutoring). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tutorstvo (guardianship, tutorage, tutorship, ward), starateljstvo (custody, guardianship, mandate, trusteeship, tutorship, ward, wardship). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tutela (aegis, egis, guardianship, ward, wardship). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undervisning (education, instruction, teaching, training, tuition), förmyndarskap (guardianship). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vesayet (tutelar, tutelary, tutorship, ward, wardship), vasilik (guardianship, tutorship, wardship), koruma (aegis, asylum, auspices, bodyguard, conservancy, conservation, convoy, covering, custody, defending, defense, escort, Favor, favour, guard, guarding, indemnity, keeping, lifeguard, maintenance, patronage, preservation, protection, protective, retention, safeguard, safekeeping, shade, shadow, shield, umbrella). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

опікунство (tutorship), неповноліття (nonage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tutelage

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

tutela, tutelae, tutelam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tutelage

Derivations

Words beginning with "tutelage": tutelages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tutelage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duteplase, outillage, tatemae, Tufeila, tutalage, tutela, tutelege, tutilage, Tutuola. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tutelage"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tutelage" (pronounced tyuw"tulij)
4-u l i jsacrilege.
3-l i jacknowledge, college, foliage, millage, pillage, spillage, village.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tutelage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-t-t-u"

-2 letters: eaglet, eluate, gelate, guttae, guttle, league, legate, telega.

-3 letters: aglee, aglet, eagle, elate, elute, gault, gleet, gutta, latte, lutea, tegua, telae, tutee.

-4 letters: agee, ague, alee, egal, gale, gate, gelt, geta, glee, glue, glut, late, leet, luge, lute, tael, tale, tate, taut, teal, teat, teel, tela, tele, tule.

-5 letters: age, ale, alt, ate, att.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: tutelages.

 

+2 letters: gauntleted.

 

+3 letters: aiguillette, gesticulate.

 

+4 letters: aiguillettes, gesticulated, gesticulates, gratefullest.

 

+5 letters: gesticulative, unforgettable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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