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Definition: Tutelage |
TutelageNoun1. 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: TutelageSynonyms: care (n), charge (n), guardianship (n), tuition (n), tutorship (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Tutelage |
| English words defined with "tutelage": mandate, mandatory ♦ Tutele. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tutelage": Tutele. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tutelage": under the tutelage of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tutelage | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 tutela (custody, guardianship, protectorship, pupilage, tutorage, ward, wardship), período de tuleta. (various references) tutelã (guardianship, tutorship, ward). (various references) обучение (drill, drilling, indoctrination, instruction, learning by insight, nurture, schooling, teaching, tirocinium, training, tuition, tutoring). (various references) tutorstvo (guardianship, tutorage, tutorship, ward), starateljstvo (custody, guardianship, mandate, trusteeship, tutorship, ward, wardship). (various references) tutela (aegis, egis, guardianship, ward, wardship). (various references) undervisning (education, instruction, teaching, training, tuition), förmyndarskap (guardianship). (various references) 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) опікунство (tutorship), неповноліття (nonage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tutela, tutelae, tutelam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tutelage": tutelages. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tutelage" (pronounced tyuw"tulij) |
| 4 | -u l i j | sacrilege. |
| 3 | -l i j | acknowledge, college, foliage, millage, pillage, spillage, village. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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