Mentress

Quick meaning: Mentress is a noun meaning Alternative form of mentoress.

Meaning

Alternative form of mentoress.

Example Sentences

“Grow up: I have this theory, hey, about why women don’t need mentors.” / “Mentresses …” / “Men-tors. Mentor was a person’s name. Can’t say … I don’t know …[…]

I also hope very much that they will find en route their own mentors and mentresses in their quest for peace, justice and equality between men and women around the globe.

“Did you have any female mentors?” she asks. / “Female what?” / “Like, teachers, or other woman painters you admired.” / “Shouldn’t that be mentresses?” I say nastily. “There weren’t any. My teacher was a man.”

“Jane Addams had lived in that higher dreamland of the future, ahead of her country women, ahead even of those who assumed to be the mentress of her people, as does every noble soul that labors “to make the bounds of freedom wider yet.”

Word Forms

• mentresses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mentoress, monitress, instructoress, porteress, teachress, mentrix.

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