Word.ws English Dictionary

mentoresses

mentoresses is the plural of mentoress.

Meaning of mentoress

Noun

mentoress (plural mentoresses)

  1. A female mentor.
    • “Whatever temptation Plutus may offer,” said my worldly mentoress, “never, Lionel, let the golden bait induce you to marry any girl whose antecedents you must have to explain—whom you must be the first to introduce.1853, Margaret Charlotte Jones, Scattered Leaves: Or, Twilight Trifles, London: George Routledge and Co., page 441
    Synonyms:
    mentrix

Questions about mentoresses

What is mentoresses the plural of?
Mentoresses is the plural of mentoress.

Words near mentoresses in the dictionary

  1. mentorable
  2. mentored
  3. mentoree
  4. mentorees
  5. mentoress
  6. mentoresses
  7. mentorial
  8. mentorially
  9. mentoring
  10. mentorings
  11. mentorish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mentoresses (page history and authors); mentoress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mentoresses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mentoresses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.