Mentor vs Assistant - What's the difference?
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Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
As nouns the difference between mentor and assistant
is that mentor is a wise and trusted counselor or teacher while assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.As a verb mentor
is to act as someone's mentor.As a proper noun Mentor
is odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility to raise Odysseus's son Telemachus, while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy.As an adjective assistant is
having a subordinate or auxiliary position.mentor
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See also
* coach * nestor * sponsor *Article on the etymology and history of the word “mentor” on languagehat.com
Anagrams
*assistant
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Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable.