Repetitor

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A private instructor in a repetitorium..

Definitions by Sense

1. A private instructor in a repetitorium.
2. Someone or something that repeats something.

Example Sentences

There is probably not a class throughout the Russian Empire, there is certainly not a gymnasium or a real-school, in which a certain proportion of the pupils do not avail themselves of the services of a repetitor ; and in the case of the lower classes of some schools every second or third pupil does so.

Where the real difference with the tutorial likes is in the fact that the repetitor does most of the talking in class, analyses the problem and then, at the end, hands out a summary of what the model answer should be.

Carl Philipp (1762–1827), repetitor at the Stift from 1789 to 1791 and a Hellenist, he had a strong influence on Ho:lderlin there, kept in contact with him, and was one of the first to try to collect and publish his work; see Letter 51 (to his brother Karl, 2 November 1797).

For the repetitor, its self-similarity ratio r is 1/3, identifying the subdivision of the original line into three pieces.

I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”

The oral composer, as well as the repetitor, must then quite naturally be a "counter" of rhytmic shemas.

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• repetitors
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