From Old French, from Latin tuitiō, from tuēri.

• (America) enPR: to͞oĭ'shən, IPA: /tuˈɪʃən/
• (RP) enPR: tyo͞oĭ'shən, IPA: /tjuːˈɪʃən/
• (India, Malaysia, Singapore) enPR: tyo͞o'shən, IPA: /ˈtjuːʃən/

tuition

1. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
   1. (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

      tuition classes

2. (North American) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college); tuition fees.

   These rosemaling workshops are no place for anyone who wants to pester me or the students with the "white privilege" card, inter alia. Therefore, I reserve the right to refund the tuition of such men and women, kick them out the door, and bar them from at least two of my future events.

   Synonyms: tuition fees

3. (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.

• French: frais de scolarité, frais d'inscription, minerval
• German: Studiengebühr, Unterrichtsgebühr
• Italian: retta
• Russian: плата за обучение
• Spanish: colegiatura

• French: cours
• German: Tutorium, Unterricht
• Portuguese: tutelagem
• Russian: обуче́ние
• Spanish: enseñanza, clases