🇬🇧 Tuition meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Tuition is when someone teaches you something in a planned way, like a lesson. It can be one teacher with one student or a small group. During tuition, the teacher explains things, answers questions, and helps you understand schoolwork or learn a special skill, like maths, reading, or playing an instrument.

Mum gave me tuition in tying my shoelaces; now the laces are tied, but somehow my fingers are too.

Our neighbour offers piano tuition, and now the whole street knows I can play ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ 47 times in a row.

In language tuition, I learned to say hello in three languages and “Where are the snacks?” in four.

In swimming tuition, I mastered the important skill of not screaming every time a drop of water touched my face.

Our teacher gives lunchtime tuition in chess, and I still manage to lose to the kid who keeps forgetting how the horsey moves.

Anna sits by the piano. The teacher arrives with a lamp and opens her book. She gives tuition to a small girl, then tuition to a nervous boy, then tuition to a tired teen. Each tuition is a quiet, careful lesson of fingers and breath. After the last tuition the nervous boy plays a clear tune and beams.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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