Mentor
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
"Many mentors claim that they would work with the vocationers for free because of the sense of satisfaction the interaction provides."
- 2 a wise and trusted guide and advisor wordnet
- 1 To act as someone's mentor. transitive
"After him came several deshi, or followers he had mentored."
- 2 serve as a teacher or trusted counselor wordnet
- 1 Odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility of raising Odysseus's son Telemachus while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy. Greek, countable, uncountable
- 2 A male given name from Ancient Greek. countable
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More examples"You have been a great mentor to me."
Etymology
From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).
From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”).
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