mentor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a wise and trusted guide and advisor

   I've been lucky enough to have several great mentors in my career.

2. 2
   verb

   to serve as a teacher or trusted counselor

   The famous professor mentored me while I was in college.

3. 3
   noun

   A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.

   Many mentors claim that they would work with the vocationers for free because of the sense of satisfaction the interaction provides.

4. 4
   verb

   To act as someone's mentor.

   After him came several deshi, or followers he had mentored.

5. 5
   name

   Odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility of raising Odysseus's son Telemachus while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy.

6. 6
   name

   A male given name from Ancient Greek.

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”).