tutorship

7.0

Private teaching of one person or a small group

noun
/ˈtuːtərˌʃɪp/

: tutela

Under the careful tutorship of her private teacher, Emma significantly improved her math skills.

Examples

The actor credits his confidence to the professional tutorship he received before landing his first major role.
Somewhat of a maverick in landscape photography, David Muench has studied under the tutorship of nature more than with the great landscape photographers.

Academic text (2004)
His success in the competition was largely due to the personalized guidance he received during his tutorship.

Synonyms

tutoring

vstutorship

49 2.2

Private lessons that help someone learn

is a formal role or ongoing practice that includes that activity

tutelage

vstutorship

8 6.8

Teaching and help given by a teacher to a student

is the formal role or practice rather than guidance and supervision

tuition

vstutorship

3 3.6

Teaching you get from a tutor to help you learn

is the held role or practice rather than the instruction itself

instructorship

vstutorship

Formal

7.4

A teaching job at a college or university

is the private, individual teaching practice rather than an institutional post

How Personal

tutorship

7.0

classroom

502 1.0

Surface Forms

tutorship singular

tutorships plural

Morphology

tutorship = tutor (transparent) = tutor + ship

Formed by straightforward suffixation of '-ship' to 'tutor' to indicate the office, position, or period of being a tutor.

Etymology

The word tutorship comes from tutor, a word that originally meant 'to watch' or 'to protect'. A tutor was someone who watched over a student's learning, so tutorship is the job or practice of teaching and guiding a student one by one.