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Perhaps you should rephrase the question, as I believe you're looking for a term for the recipient of mentoring, which is different from the opposite of a mentor, which would be someone who leads you astray rather than guides you on the right path. I do not think it means what you think it means. Show 5 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. I think you may be looking for protege : protege — a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career.

Improve this answer. Robusto Robusto k 37 37 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. But patron is very different from mentor.

A patron provides money and influence, while a mentor is normally an expert in the pupil's own field and gives advice. The Pope was a patron of Michaelangelo who commissioned him to create many works of art, but the Pope could not be a mentor as he had no artistic experience of his own.

Nate: Mentor is used today in the same way patron used to be. These days patron has come to mean someone who donates money to an institution or individual , not someone who brings someone along in society or in a career. Came here to say this. RegDwight: Despite the fact that I expect mentee to be displaced by mentoree pretty soon, it's the more common of the two right now. I didn't bother with because it'll be incomplete, but it's obvious protege has already been displaced.

Protege doesn't work since the mentee is not "protected" by the mentor nor does the mentor-mentee relationship usually last beyond a training period. When I became a dispatcher, I had a "mentor" that I could ask questions of until I got the hang of things and passed the annual qualification. Once I was signed off, he was no longer my mentor; he was my co-worker. I was never his protege. Show 6 more comments. Add a comment. FumbleFingers FumbleFingers k 45 45 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

You may not like "mentee", but it's certainly in wider use than "mentoree" , as the ngrams and google book search show. Mark Beadles: Well you only have to look at the upvotes here for protege - twice those for silves89's mentee , and four times my mentoree - to see that most people like what they know.

But I'm quite certain if you plot the frequency of occurence for all three words over the past 30 years, you'll see that mentoree is coming up fast on the inside track. Given its "correct" relationship to the newly-emerged verb "to mentor" , I'd bet any money that in another 30 years time mentoree will be the standard form. Whether we few here at ELU like it or not - it's just a line on a graph. If tutoree is OK, so is mentoree.

At Leadership Design Group, this is a frequent question. This even has been the subject of spirited internal debate. Here is a summary of the debate as we see it and how Leadership Design Group has crafted our own communication:. The choice of many mentors, this term came into use in , according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its broad use, however, has been quite recent and came into wide use from its adaptation primarily in the business world.

Odysseus, the Greek legendary king of Ithaca, left his son Telemachus in the charge of his friend Mentor when he left for the Trojan wars. Xeroxed a copy? Though we do not count ourselves among them, we agree with the word purists.

We know we are swimming against a strong tide of usage. This is a lovely word. I would like to thank him for all the guidance and mentoring given to me. He is highly intelligent and a great communicator, which makes him very easy to mentor. John is a fantastic worker, mentor and friend. He epitomises what a true teacher and mentor is. Having you as a mentor has changed my life for the better.

I truly appreciate everything that you have done for me. Is mentor used correctly in the following sentence? When you mentor someone, it involves more than just teaching and giving advice—it also requires listening. A mentor from Hive and the support of a machine-learning team helped her build a program that determines the threat of violence from unlabeled pictures or video footage.

For younger staffers who are ready to take on more responsibilities, or want their company to sponsor them to take a class, or they want a mentor , they need to ask for it. So I did a research internship with him and he was an important mentor for me. By reaching out to a local high school or non-profit to become a mentor for a high achieving, low-income student.

He made no bones about his great admiration for FDR, who was his mentor , and he had roots too in the Truman administration. A group of them mentor the turbulent, desperate kids fresh off the streets who are at their most violent when they first arrive. At 17, she attended the Durango Songwriters Expo, a summit where 30 music industry professionals mentor some-odd attendees. Although he was on the eve of his departure for Lucknau, he was, nevertheless, kind enough to become my Mentor.

However, their guide, mentor , and boss had a faraway look in his eye—seemed impatient to get going.