mentor
To act as someone's mentorTo act as someone's mentor.
» Tom was a friend and a mentor.
Том був другом та наставником.
Meaning
1 sensesTo act as someone's mentor.
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- serve as a teacher or trusted counselor
Examples
76 sentencesTom was a friend and a mentor.
Том був другом та наставником.
I had a good mentor.
У мене був добрий вчитель.
Did you have a mentor?
У тебе був наставник?
I consider Tom my mentor.
Я вважаю Тома своїм наставником.
I consider Tom a mentor.
Я вважаю Тома наставником.
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological characterFrom 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”).
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Forms
mentors, mentoring, mentored, mentoredWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle