Noun: mentor
| Singular | mentor |
| Plural | mentors |
Sample Sentences
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Many mentors claim that they would work with the vocationers for free because of the sense of satisfaction the interaction provides. [2006, Lisa Johnson, Mind Your X's and Y's:]
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I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults? [2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 26:]
Nouns inflected like mentor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: French Nouns '
mentor', Latin Nouns '
monitor', Latin Nouns '
moneō'.