mentor
- a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- an influential senior sponsor or supporter.
- to act as a mentor: She spent years mentoring to junior employees.
- to act as a mentor to: The brash young executive did not wish to be mentored by anyone.
Origin of mentor
Synonyms for mentor
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counsel, guide, coach, instruct, tutor, teach, explain, educate, edify, sponsor, champion, help, aidExamples from the Web for mentored
Contemporary Examples of mentored
For decades, Woodson Sr. has mentored Paul on how on how government dollars impact people in the communities they live.
His greatest influence was, undoubtedly, one of the original soul masters, Sam Cooke, who mentored him.
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I have mentored dozens of my friend's children through college frustrations and job searches.
The true “Maya” was in fact second-generation and mentored by Jennifer.
Patty Hearst was mentored by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
mentor
- a wise or trusted adviser or guide
- to act as a mentor to (someone); train
Word Origin for mentor
Mentor
- the friend whom Odysseus put in charge of his household when he left for Troy. He was the adviser of the young Telemachus
Word Origin and History for mentored
mentor
"wise advisor," 1750, from Greek Mentor, friend of Odysseus and adviser of Telemachus (but often actually Athene in disguise) in the "Odyssey," perhaps ultimately meaning "adviser," because the name appears to be an agent noun of mentos "intent, purpose, spirit, passion" from PIE *mon-eyo- (cf. Sanskrit man-tar- "one who thinks," Latin mon-i-tor "one who admonishes"), causative form of root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)). The general use of the word probably is via later popular romances, in which Mentor played a larger part than he does in Homer.
mentor
1888, from mentor (n.). Related: Mentored; mentoring.