mentee
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee"
- "The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions"
- "[T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other"
- "In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with. A 'mentee may be drawn to make certain connections based on a sense of their professional influence."
- "Her assistant, played by Noémie Merlant (another would-be conductor) appears to be someone else she is keeping on an emotional string, and she is being stalked by another former mentee who has become obsessed with her;[…]"
- "In 2017, [Sam] Altman leaned into their disagreements and went on a tour of America, much like [Peter] Thiel’s other mentee [Mark] Zuckerberg, and spoke to one hundred Trump supporters."
Etymology
Back-formation from mentor. Although mentor comes from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr), the name of a mythological figure, it was mistakenly analyzed as terminating in the suffix -or (“doer”), leading to a form using the French patientive suffix -ee on the model of pairs such as donor–donee and employer–employee. Attested since at least 1958.