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mentress

mentress is the alternative form 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

Forms of mentress

pluralmentresses

Origin of mentress

From mentor + -ess.

Questions about mentress

What is mentress the alternative form of?
Mentress is the alternative form of mentoress.

Words near mentress in the dictionary

  1. mentorships
  2. mentos
  3. Mentougou
  4. Mentoukou
  5. mentovertical
  6. mentress
  7. mentresses
  8. mentrices
  9. Mentring
  10. mentrix
  11. ments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mentress (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.

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