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mentee
Mentee (noun) means someone who is guided and advised by a more experienced person.
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Someone who is guided and advised by a more experienced person.
"The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions"
— Laurence E. Leamer, Economic Education in Colleges (1958)
"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."
— Kwame Anthony Appiah, Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee? (2022)
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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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What is the meaning of mentee?
"mentee" (noun) means someone who is guided and advised by a more experienced person.
What is another word for mentee?
Other words for "mentee" include trainee, student, mentoree, pupil, apprentice.
What is the opposite of mentee?
The opposite of "mentee" is mentor.
