Tutelage: meaning, example and synonyms
Tutelagen. Instruction, guidance, or guardianship given by a teacher or mentor.
Example
Under the tutelage of an experienced restorer, the apprentice learned to distinguish original varnish from layers added by less careful hands.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Synonyms
- instruction, guidance, mentorship, guardianship
- Antonyms
- neglect
- Memory tip
- Tutelage shares a root with tutor: learning under a tutor's care.
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Check yourself: Tutelage in context
Under the ______ of a master violin maker, the young craftsman spent six years learning to select, carve, and varnish spruce before building an instrument of his own.
Answer: tutelage. Learning a craft for years from a master is being under his instruction. Apathy, latency and animosity are not forms of teaching.
The colony remained under the ______ of the mother country for decades, governed by officials who claimed they were preparing it for eventual self-rule.
Answer: tutelage. Being governed while supposedly prepared for self-rule is guardianship. Profusion, latency and apathy don't describe one power guiding another.