Mentor

A mentor is the main person you rely on to give you advice and guidance, especially in your career.

Mentor can also be used as a verb meaning to act as a mentor, as in I mentor two of my students.��

If you have a mentor, you are the mentee.

Example: It feels strange to me that I’m now more famous than my mentor—I wouldn’t be where I am without her.

Even your mentor might not have known that the word mentor comes from a proper name—though a fictional one. In the Odyssey, Mentor is a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of his son Telemachus. The first records of mentor used in English as a noun referring to an advisor come from the 1700s. Mentor wasn’t popularly used as a verb until the 1900s. (Similar to most mentor-mentee relationships, mentee is much younger—the first records of it come from the 1960s.)

The word mentor is most commonly used in professional and academic contexts. In academia, a mentor is usually a teacher, especially a professor, and their mentee is typically a student. A mentor may act as a model for the mentee’s career and help them decide which path to pursue. The same thing goes for professional mentor-mentee relationships, in which the mentor is usually a boss or a person who holds a more senior position. Because mentors draw on their experience to mentor mentees, mentors are usually older. In all cases, the two words imply a close relationship based on the mentee’s respect for the ����Գٴǰ�’s wisdom and experience and the ����Գٴǰ�’s recognition of the mentee’s dedication and potential.

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• mentorship (noun)

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• mentee

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• student
• teacher
• professor
• boss
• craft
• learn
• example
• apprentice
• experience

Mentor is typically used by mentees when referring to such a relationship.

A basketball coach should be a coach, a teacher, a mentor, a good example, a counselor, a positive influence, someone players trust, someone they can learn life skills from, and someone who will support and believe in them. If this ain’t for you, then neither is coaching.

— William Payne 🧩 (@TweetsbyCoachP)

you know those scenes in movies where a cool older mentor gives their mentee a stack of albums that’ll “change their life” or whatever? i wanna do that but with a sleeve of burned CDs & be like “autobiography – simpson. metamorphosis – duff. let go – lavigne. misundaztood—

— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard)

I love mentoring young kids! It's an amazing feeling when you see them finally getting it! Mentoring= coaching+teaching+loving x working

— Ed Geth (@CoachGeth)

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Is mentor used correctly in the following sentence?

When you mentor someone, it involves more than just teaching and giving advice—it also requires listening.