mentorship

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — mentor sits at #4,479mostly written

Other forms: mentorships

Mentorship is guidance given by somebody more experienced. Offer mentorship.

It works when the mentor gains nothing from the outcome, which is the rare part. Mentorship differs from management, since a mentor cannot make anybody do anything.

Definitions of mentorship

1nounmentorshipGuidance given by somebody more experienced.B2
“The mentorship lasted a year and changed the whole direction of her work.”

mentorship is guidance.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*men- (think)
Proto-Indo-European
*monéyeti
Ancient Greek
Μέντωρ — Mentor
French
mentor
English
mentor
English, today
mentorship

Built from

*men- · Proto-Indo-European — to think

From mentor + -ship. mentor comes from French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (“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 (“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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Work & Careers

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mentorship in the wild

Most traditional mentorships involve having senior employees mentor more junior employees, but mentors do not necessarily have to be more senior than the people they mentor.
Mentorship
The mentorship program was made available to five Canadian non-fiction writers, who were selected in partnership with a national network of university and college writing programs.
RBC Taylor Prize
McCarroll later turned down both the $100,000 and the mentorship with Banana Republic, stating that the prizes came with too much contractual baggage.
Project Runway season 1
Santos surprisingly won the title under the mentorship of Gordon Igesund.
2001–02 South African Premiership
The accelerator provides capital, mentorship, and other support for early-stage entrepreneurs.
Techstars

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Related words

the mentor family

mentor

mentorship — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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