All 8 Uses

mentor
in
Mao’s Last Dancer
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They had absolute power and would become our political and ideological mentors.†
Chpt 2.8 *
He told me that his political mentors in the navy wanted him to apply for Communist Party membership.†
Chpt 2.13
He had been my mentor, my only mentor, the only teacher in whom I could confide.†
Chpt 2.14
He had been my mentor, my only mentor, the only teacher in whom I could confide.†
Chpt 2.14
The end of this year was the first and only time that we went to see the army stationed outside Beijing: there were several elite divisions, and about ten of us were assigned a soldier each as our mentor to accompany and instruct us every day.†
Chpt 2.14
Ben's choreographic and teaching talents were immense—he became my mentor and I concentrated on my dancing with all my energy.†
Chpt 3.24
He was my mentor, my friend, the one man to whom I owed so much.†
Chpt 3.28
I had guest-performed with the Australian Ballet on several occasions and enjoyed working with them, but to leave Ben, who had been my mentor for sixteen years, who was instrumental in the success of my career, was not easy.†
Chpt P.S.

Definitions:

(1) (mentor)
someone who guides and advises another who is less experienced; or the act of providing such guidance
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much less commonly, in the ancient Greek story of The Odyssey, Mentor was a friend of Odysseus.