What does mentor mean?

Definitions for mentor
ˈmɛn tɔr, -tərmen·tor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mentor, wise manverb

    a wise and trusted guide and advisor

  2. mentorverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. mentornoun

    A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

  2. mentorverb

    To act as someone's mentor

  3. Mentornoun

    Odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility to raise Odysseus's son Telemachus, while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy

  4. Etymology: From Μέντωρ.

ChatGPT

  1. mentor

    A mentor is a person who provides advice, guidance, and support to another, typically less experienced individual, in a professional or personal context. This person serves as a teacher, coach, counselor, or role model, and helps the mentee in their growth, learning, and development by sharing their knowledge, skills, and experiences.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mentornoun

    a wise and faithful counselor or monitor

  2. Etymology: [From Mentor, the counselor of Telemachus, Gr. Me`ntwr, prop., counselor. Cf. Monitor.]

Wikidata

  1. Mentor

    In Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Alcimus or Anchialus or Heracles and Asopis. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War. When Athena visited Telemachus she took the disguise of Mentor to hide herself from the suitors of Telemachus' mother Penelope. As Mentor, the goddess encouraged Telemachus to stand up against the suitors and go abroad to find out what happened to his father. When Odysseus returned to Ithaca, Athena appeared briefly in the form of Mentor again at Odysseus' palace. Because of Mentor's relationship with Telemachus, and the disguised Athena's encouragement and practical plans for dealing with personal dilemmas, the personal name Mentor has been adopted in English as a term meaning someone who imparts wisdom to and shares knowledge with a less experienced colleague.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mentor

    men′tor, n. a wise counsellor.—adj. Mentor′ial. [Gr. Mentōr, the tutor of Telemachus.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Mentor

    a friend of Ulysses, and the tutor of his son Telemachus, whose form and voice Athena assumed in order to persuade his pupil to retain and maintain the courage and astuteness of his father.

Editors Contribution

  1. mentor

    A person with the role and responsibility to give instruction or coach a type of sport.

    The are so many sporting mentors across every country who coach children in a wide variety of sports.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020  

Etymology and Origins

  1. Mentor

    A “guide, philosopher, and friend,” so called after Mentor, the faithful friend and counsellor of Ulysses.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MENTOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mentor is ranked #26671 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mentor surname appeared 913 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mentor.

    76.7% or 701 total occurrences were Black.
    14% or 128 total occurrences were White.
    5.3% or 49 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.6% or 24 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Anagrams for mentor »

  1. meront

  2. Merton

  3. metron

  4. tormen

  5. termon

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mentor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mentor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of mentor in a Sentence

  1. Robert Galop:

    I would appreciate having him in front of my kids as a coach there, and as an advocate and a mentor.

  2. Tom Kilgannon:

    We do a lot of fishing trips and hunting trips, and those are events to bring veterans together so that they can mentor one another, counsel one another and help one another.

  3. Steve Latshaw:

    Jimmie was my teacher, mentor, close friend and collaborator for 26 years, i directed two of his feature films, including the recent 'Return of the Killer Shrews,' a sequel he co-wrote and was quite proud of as he had made the first one more than 50 years earlier.

  4. Kathy Caprino:

    You need a mentor or sponsor or someone in the company you trust and respect that you can learn from, someone who is powerful and will open doors for you when you aren't in the room.

  5. Don Samuels:

    If those people who are saying, ‘get rid of the police,’ would say, ‘you know what, we’re going to come in and we’re going to become a part of this community. We’re going to give our hard-earned income to shop in this community. We’re going to mentor kids in this community,’ now you’re talking, but you can’t just say, let’s get rid of the police and then live these other social deficiencies or problems in place.

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