mentor
Plural: mentors
Noun
- a wise and trusted guide and advisor
- A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
Verb
Verb Forms: mentored, mentoring, mentors
- To advise or train someone, acting as a trusted guide.
- serve as a teacher or trusted counselor
- "The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school"
- "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring"
- To act as someone's mentor.
Examples
- An experienced player might MENTOR a beginner on advanced Scrabble strategies.
Origin / 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”)).
Synonyms
wise man
Scrabble Score: 8
mentor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmentor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mentor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary