a person who is being tutored; the pupil of a tutor
Word origin
[1925–30; tut(or) + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, decibel, distinctive feature, hot spot, off-line-ee is a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is theobject or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); more recent formations also mark the performer of an act, with the base being anintransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee)
Examples of 'tutee' in a sentence
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The participants included 22 students of medicine as tutor and 240 newly admitted students as tutee.
Maryam Alizadeh, Azim Mirzazadeh, Mahboobeh Khabaz Mafinejad, Soheil Peiman 2019, 'Preparing Medical Students to Become Effective Tutors: A Reaction, Learning and BehaviorEvaluation Study', Educational Research in Medical Scienceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5812/erms.85753. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)