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
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Contemporary Examples of mentorship
Mentorship programs are also beneficial, and service providers should be trained in cultural sensitivity.
His mentorship, kindness, and friendship continue to guide and inform my approach to life.
In the film, Sting is gifted to Bilbo by Gandalf in a moment of mentorship.
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December 14, 2012
Historical Examples of mentorship
Charley did not put on any mentorship to us, and the more we saw of him the more we liked him.
Johnny Ludlow, Fifth SeriesMrs. Henry Wood
Let me try and tell him what, under my mentorship, he would mark and see.
Rome in 1860Edward Dicey
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 mentorship
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.