Friend vs. Mentor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Friend and Mentor
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Friend
A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
Mentor
A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
Friend
A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
Mentor
Mentor Greek Mythology Odysseus's trusted counselor, in whose guise Athena became the guardian and teacher of Telemachus.
Friend
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
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Mentor
To serve as a trusted counselor or teacher, especially in occupational settings.
Friend
One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement
Friends of the clean air movement.
Mentor
To serve as a trusted counselor or teacher to (another person).
Friend
Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.
Mentor
A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
Friend
(Informal) To add (someone) as a friend on a social networking website.
Mentor
(transitive) To act as someone's mentor.
Friend
(Archaic) To befriend.
Mentor
A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.
Friend
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.
Trust is important between friends.
I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.
We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.
We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.
Mentor
A wise and trusted guide and advisor
Friend
An associate who provides assistance.
The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend.
The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
Mentor
Serve as a teacher or trusted counselor;
The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school
She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring
Friend
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
A friend of a friend;
I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know
Friend
A person who backs or supports something.
I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
Friend
(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
Fruit is your friend.
Friend
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You’d better watch it, friend.
Friend
(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
Friend
(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
Friend
(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Friend
A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
Friends agree best at a distance.
Make friends of framet folk.
Friend
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
Friend
(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
Friend
One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Friend
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
Friend, how camest thou in hither?
Friend
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
Friend
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
America was first visited by Friends in 1656.
Friend
A paramour of either sex.
Friend
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Fortune friends the bold.
Friend
A person you know well and regard with affection and trust;
He was my best friend at the university
Friend
An associate who provides assistance;
He's a good ally in fight
They were friends of the workers
Friend
A person with whom you are acquainted;
I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances
We are friends of the family
Friend
A person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
All their supporters came out for the game
They are friends of the library
Friend
A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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