tuitions
- 1Plural of tuition.
The tuitions charged by these universities differ by thousands of dollars.
Rising tuitions have pushed many families toward community colleges.
Note
A plural whose meaning depends on where it is read. In US, Canadian and Philippine English tuition is the fee, so tuitions are the charges of several schools. Even there, the singular usually works as a mass noun (tuition keeps rising), and the plural appears when distinct institutions are compared. In Australian, Indian, Malaysian and Singaporean English, tuitions are paid private classes; in British and Irish use, the word names the teaching itself.
tuitions is a form of tuition
tuition, noun: The money paid for instruction at a school, college, or university. Full entry
- Forms
- tuitiontuitions plural
- Spelling
- tuition → tuitions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with tuitions, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.