mentee

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
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10
Letters
6

Definition of mentee

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who is being mentored.
    “Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee”
    “The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions”
    “[T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other”
    “In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with. A 'mentee may be drawn to make certain connections based on a sense of their professional influence.”
    “Her assistant, played by Noémie Merlant (another would-be conductor) appears to be someone else she is keeping on an emotional string, and she is being stalked by another former mentee who has become obsessed with her;[…]”

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Etymology

Back-formation from mentor. Although mentor comes from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr), the name of a mythological figure, it was mistakenly analyzed as terminating in the suffix -or (“doer”), leading to a form using the French patientive suffix -ee on the model of pairs such as donor–donee and employer–employee. Attested since at least 1958.

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