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mentee

noun

men·​tee men-ˈtē How to pronounce mentee (audio)
: one who is being mentored : protégé
… nearly all the mentees opted to remain in the sciences …Sally Rubenstone

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Pietranton, who celebrated is 56th birthday last week, is survived by his brother, Ryan Pietranton, his nephews Michael and Matthew, and hundreds of mentees throughout the PR business who were lucky to have him as mensch. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025 What followed was a celebratory cover of a song Walker had sung thousands of times by that point, mentor and mentee sharing the microphone for the chorus. Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2025 In 2024, The Roybal School of Film and Television Magnet, also a fund of EIF, also joined as a new partnership school of the Mentorship Program, creating a path for Roybal students to become mentees. Thr Staff, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025 Mallika Dhaliwal, Mahnoor Euceph, and Armaan Uplekar were the 2025 mentees. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mentee

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mentee was in 1965

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“Mentee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentee. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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