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Mentor   /mˈɛntˌɔr/  /mˈɛntər/   Listen
Mentor

noun
1.
A wise and trusted guide and advisor.  Synonym: wise man.
verb
1.
Serve as a teacher or trusted counselor.  "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring"





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"Mentor" Quotes from Famous Books



... name of the mentor and friend who had rescued him from so many difficulties, something of guilt mingled with the beatitude on Hilary Vance's face, and he said in a less ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... heart. He is essentially of a corrupt heart who will stand for slavery in its principle. He is without anything generous in his nature. Cold selfishness marks and makes him. But supposing I as sincerely desired to escape—as I sincerely do not—what, O most wise mentor, ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware
... indulged in the weakness of tiring herself in all her small bravery when he was coming, and presented herself in the parlor beauteous and flushed and conscious, and was so delectably shy and sweet that she betrayed him into numerous trifling follies not at all consistent with his high position of mentor; and then, again, she was obstinate, rather incomprehensible, and did not adorn herself at all, and, indeed, was hard enough ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... was interested in people only as an on-looker. She responded instantly to Mrs. Vandervelde's suggestions and instructions, and carried them out with an intelligent thoroughness that at times made her mentor gasp. It gave her a definite object to work for, and kept her from thinking too much about Glenn Mitchell. And she didn't want to think about Glenn Mitchell. It hurt. She watched with a quiet wonder—quite as if it had been a stranger to ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... was not in Edelweiss for the purpose of meddling with state affairs. He was there because he elected to stand mentor to the son of his life-long friend, even though that son was a prince of the blood and controlled by the will of three regents chosen by his own subjects. He was there to watch over the doughty little chap, ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon


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