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“Tooters” or “Tutors”

tooters / tutors are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

tooters

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

tutors t·UW·t·er·z

  • verbbe a tutor to someone; give individual instruction.
  • verbact as a guardian to someone.
Usage

Examples in context

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“tooters”

  • …want to be X any more!"
  • …in time and to various locales.

“tutors”

  • …most prosperous inhabitants employed private tutors, the use of which was…
  • …mother, with occasional instruction from tutors.
  • …himself by his parents and tutors in San Francisco, but he…
  • …became one of her other tutors.
  • …other learners, between learners and tutors; between a learning community and…
  • Tutors include: Annie Griffen, theatre; Nicholas…
  • …be office workers and peer tutors.
  • …the eighteenth-century peers made their tutors under-secretaries; in the twentieth under-secretaries…
  • …highly interactive workbooks, and trained tutors who are themselves from rural…
  • Private tutors solved the problem of transport…

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