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Mestee vs Mentee - What's the difference?

mestee | mentee |

As nouns the difference between mestee and mentee

is that mestee is a mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture while mentee is a person who is being mentored.

As an adjective Mestee

is of mixed race people, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.

mestee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
  • A member of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry, like the Melungeons and the Brass Ankles.
  • A person who is mostly white and less than one eighth black.
  • In the West Indies, a person who is one eighth black (an octoroon).

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of mixed race people, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
  • Of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry.

    • Related terms

    * Mustee (possible variant spelling )

    See also

    * (Mestee) * * (Mestizo) * Africans and Native Americans

    Anagrams

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    mentee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who is being mentored
    • The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions. — Educating Youth for Economic Competence , volume 15, 1958

    Synonyms

    * English words suffixed with -ee