mentorship

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noun

The role or state of being a mentor.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

nounmentorship (countable and uncountable, plural mentorships)

plural mentorships

  1. countableuncountableThe role or state of being a mentor.

    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.

    2022 November 29, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee?”, in The New York Times Magazine
    1 more example

    The mentorships were plenty, starting with Brian Derdall, a sort of rain-man genius in Engineering, along with T-man the technology guru, new hire peers Alex and Joel, and my new senior co-workers Ivan, Robert, and a sort of management mentor John.

    2013, Mike Doiron, Thread of Life: An Adoption Story, →ISBN, page 74

Origin

  1. Englishmentor
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. Englishmentorship

From mentor + -ship.

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Translations

Catalan mentoria
  • mentoriastate of being a mentor
Polish mentoring
  • mentoringstate of being a mentor
Russian наставничество
  • наставничество (nastavničestvo)state of being a mentor
Spanish mentoría
  • mentoríastate of being a mentor
Swedish mentorskap
  • mentorskapstate of being a mentor
Cite this entry
APA

mentorship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mentorship

MLA

“mentorship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mentorship. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mentorship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mentorship.

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