tuitionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

発音

enPR: tyo͞oĭ'shən, 韻: -ɪʃən

• IPA: /tjuːˈɪʃən/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA: /tjʉːˈɪʃən/, /t͡ʃʉːˈɪʃən/ (General Australian)

enPR: to͞oĭ'shən

• IPA: /tuˈɪʃən/ (General American, Canada)

enPR: tyo͞o'shən

• IPA: /ˈtjuːʃən/ (India, Malaysia, Singapore)

名詞

tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)

1. (Ireland, UK) The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2. (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

   1. tuition classes

      • 2021 August 18, Qiu Guanhua, “Forum: Heavy reliance on tuition to boost performance is not healthy”, in The Straits Times‎, Singapore, archived from the original on 28 December 2022:

        Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.

3. (Canada, US, Philippines) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

   Synonym: tuition fees (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK)

   The school’s tuition has gone up by five percent.

4. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—
     CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—
     DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.
     BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

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Further reading

• “tuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.