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Definitions for protege
ˈproʊ təˌʒeɪ, ˌproʊ təˈʒeɪpro·tege

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. protegenoun

    a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

Wiktionary

  1. protégénoun

    A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person or mentor.

    While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protu00E9gu00E9 of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University. uE000169041uE001 Manifold Destiny by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, The New Yorker

  2. protegenoun

    A person guided and protected by a more prominent person.

    His status as a protege of the great artist had many benefits, but was ultimately a burden.

ChatGPT

  1. protege

    A protege is a person who is guided, mentored, and supported by someone more experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field or area of expertise. The protege seeks to learn and develop their skills, knowledge, and career under the guidance and tutelage of their mentor or teacher.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Protege

    alt. of Protegee

  2. Etymology: [F., p. p. of protger. See Protect.]

Wikidata

  1. Protégé

    Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and a knowledge acquisition system. Like Eclipse, Protégé is a framework for which various other projects suggest plugins. This application is written in Java and heavily uses Swing to create the rather complex user interface. Protégé recently has over 200,000 registered users. Protégé is being developed at Stanford University in collaboration with the University of Manchester and is made available under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Protégé

    prō-tā-zhā′, n. one under the protection of another: a pupil: a ward:—fem. Protégée. [Fr., pa.p. of protéger, to protect—L. protegĕre.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of protege in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of protege in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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