mentee
Americannoun
Usage
What does mentee mean? A mentee is the person being mentored by a mentor. A mentor is the main person you rely on to give you advice and guidance, especially in your career. If you have a mentor, you are the mentee. Mentee is only used in relation to a mentor. Example: I feel like I’ve learned more from my mentees than they have from me.
Etymology
Origin of mentee
Example Sentences
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Investors’ attention soon shifted from shock at Druckenmiller’s broadside against his mentee to the question of whether he used artificial intelligence to write the piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
What else could motivate him into action quite like some Lorne Michaels mentee?
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Smart said she was a little taken aback when she first learned how things would pan out for aging comic Deborah Vance and her mentee Ava Daniels, played by Hannah Einbinder.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
Jaglom was a mentee and close confidant of acclaimed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, whose farewell performance came in Jaglom’s 1987 comedy “Someone to Love,” which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
He would be, I thought to myself, a good summer mentee.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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