mentor

Meanings

Plural: mentors

Noun

a wise and trusted guide and advisor
A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.

Verb

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"
To act as someone's mentor.

Origin / 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”)).

Synonyms

wise man

Scrabble Score: 8

mentor is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
mentor is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mentor is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

mentor is a valid Words With Friends word