Both Uses of
mentor
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Mr Pyke and Mr Pluck sat drinking hard in the next room, now and then varying the monotonous murmurs of their conversation with a half-smothered laugh, while the young lord—the only member of the party who was not thoroughly irredeemable, and who really had a kind heart—sat beside his Mentor, with a cigar in his mouth, and read to him, by the light of a lamp, such scraps of intelligence from a paper of the day, as were most likely to yield him interest or amusement.†
Chpt 38
- 'What have you to say to me, that you could not say yonder as well as here?' returned his Mentor, disengaging his arm.†
Chpt 50 *
Definition:
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(mentor) someone who guides and advises another who is less experienced; or the act of providing such guidance