"mentee" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "mentor#Noun"
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          "name": "People",
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            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Laurence E. Leamer, “Economic Education in Colleges”, in Educating Youth for Economic Competence (American Business Education Yearbook), volume 15, Eastern Business Teachers Association, page 49",
          "text": "The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979 April 11, Robert A. Cohn, “'Norma Rae' Gets an 'A'”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, page 14",
          "text": "[T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 January 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Tár review – Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "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;[…]",
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        "A person who is being mentored."
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        {
          "word": "mentoree"
        },
        {
          "word": "protégé"
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  "word": "mentee"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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          "ref": "1958, Laurence E. Leamer, “Economic Education in Colleges”, in Educating Youth for Economic Competence (American Business Education Yearbook), volume 15, Eastern Business Teachers Association, page 49",
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          "ref": "1979 April 11, Robert A. Cohn, “'Norma Rae' Gets an 'A'”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, page 14",
          "text": "[T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023 January 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Tár review – Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "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;[…]",
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        }
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  "word": "mentee"
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