mentor

Noun · Verb
US[men-tawr]/ˈmɛnˌtɔr/2 syllablesalso [men-ter] /ˈmɛntɚ/

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)mentors

  1. a wise and trusted guide and advisorType of intellectual, intellectKinds wise man, sage, wise woman

Verb (1)mentors, mentored, mentoring

  1. 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”More general teach, learn
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Translations

Noun wise and trusted counselor or teacher

Spanish
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French
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German
Mentor
Italian
mentore
Portuguese
mentor
Russian
наста́вник nastávnik
Chinese
导师 dǎoshī
Japanese
メンター mentā
Dutch
mentor
Polish
mentor
13 more languages
Swedish
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Greek
μέντορας méntoras
Korean
멘토 mento
Indonesian
mentor
Portuguese (PT)
mentor
Chinese (Trad.)
導師 dǎoshī
Danish
mentor
Esperanto
mentoro
Finnish
mentori
Hebrew
מַנְחֶה manẖé
Norwegian
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Romanian
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Welsh
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Men′tor noun

Origin: From Mentor, the counselor of Telemachus, Gr. Μέντωρ, prop., counselor. Cf. Monitor.

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

MENTOR

CAI language. "Computer Systems for Teaching Complex Concepts", Report 1742, BBN, Mar 1969.

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