Usually means: Guide offering wisdom, support, experience.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word mentor:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mentor, mentor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mentor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Mentor, mentor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mentor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mentor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mentor, mentor: Wordnik
  7. mentor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mentor, mentor: Wiktionary
  9. mentor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mentor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mentor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mentor, mentor: Dictionary.com
  13. mentor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mentor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MENTOR, Mentor (A'lars), Mentor (Greek myth), Mentor (Marvel Comics), Mentor (Odyssey), Mentor (company), Mentor (disambiguation), Mentor (mythological figures), Mentor (satellite), Mentor, The Mentor (webisodes): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mentor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mentor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mentor: Rhymezone
  19. Mentor (m), mentor, mentor, mentor (de), mentor (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Mentor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. mentor: Free Dictionary
  22. mentor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mentor: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Mentor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mentor (Greek mythology), Mentor (mythology), mentor: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MENTOR: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Mentor (Greek mythology), Mentor (mythology), Mentor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Mentor (Greek mythology), Mentor (mythology), mentor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MENTOR: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. mentor: A Word A Day
  4. mentor: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Mentor, mentor: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mentoring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
verb:  (transitive) To act as someone's mentor.
noun:  (Greek mythology) Odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility of raising Odysseus's son Telemachus while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy.
noun:  (countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek

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