mentor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Men=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

mentor, n. [From Mentor, the counselor of Telemachus, Gr. Me`ntwr, prop., counselor. Cf. Monitor.].

 A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mentor, n. an experienced and trusted adviser.

Etymology

F f. L f. Gk Mentor adviser of the young Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey and F{eacute}nelon's T{eacute}l{eacute}maque

THESAURUS

mentor

Dutch uncle, Polonius, abecedarian, admonisher, adviser, authority, backseat driver, buttinsky, certified teacher, coach, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, elder, elder statesman, expert, fellow, forerunner, great soul, guide, guru, illuminate, instructor, intellect, intellectual, kibitzer, lover of wisdom, maestro, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, meddler, melamed, monitor, mullah, nestor, oracle, orienter, pandit, pathfinder, pedagogist, pedagogue, philosopher, preceptist, preceptor, preparationist, preparator, preparer, professor, pundit, rabbi, rishi, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, seer, starets, teacher, thinker, trailblazer, trainer, wise man, wise old man

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mentor

Advice

N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.

Teacher

N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.