MENTORS

"MENTORS" is a plural of: mentor.

Date "MENTORS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Senior professionals who provide guidance, direction and support to those persons desirous of improvement in academic positions, administrative positions or other career development situations. (references)
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Domain	Usage
Screenplays	All mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults than we would like. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)
Movie/TV Titles	Mentors (1998)
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Domain	Title
Books	Gifts of Gold: Gathering, Training, and Encouraging Mentors (reference) Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors (reference) Managers as Mentors 2 Ed: Building Partnerships for Learning (reference) Straight to the Top: Beyond Loyalty, Gamesmanship, Mentors, and Other Corporate Myths (reference) To Honor a Teacher: Students Pay Tribute to Their Most Influential Mentors (reference) (more book examples)

Music	For My Jazz Mentors (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Worker Rights	China	In several public statements, the Karmapa asserted that he left because of controls on his movements and the refusal either to allow him to go to India to be trained by his spiritual mentors or to allow his mentors to come to him. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Bill Clinton's political mentors in Arkansas were segregationists!
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	I ask all of you to help me double our bipartisan Gear-Up program, which provides mentors for disadvantaged young people.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	We need mentors to love children, especially children whose parents are in prison.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"MENTORS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MENTORS" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	52	47,145

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "MENTORS": apostle-mentors.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "MENTORS": mentorship, mentorships. (additional references)
	Words ending with "MENTORS": augmentors, fermentors, implementors, tormentors. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"MENTORS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amintore, entores, meator, memtor, menours, Menteri, menthor, mento, mentore, Mentorn, mentos, Mentouri, mentr, mentron, mentus, mintoes, mintons, mitors, Mntrse, Montfoort, Montgoris, Nenthorn, Nentori, rentors. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "MENTORS" (pronounced me"nterz or me"ntô'rz)
5	-e" n t er z	centers, centres, dissenters, enters, inventors, renters, stentors, Venters.
4	-n t er z	carpenters, counters, covenanters, discounters, enchanters, encounters, experimenters, grantors, headhunters, hunters, linters, painters, planters, pointers, presenters, printers, sprinters, tormentors, winters.
3	-t er z	abductors, accelerometers, accumulators, actors, actuators, adapters, adjusters, administers, administrators, agitators, alligators, allocators, altars, alters, ammeters, amphitheaters, ancestors, animators, anteaters, applicators, appropriators, arbiters, arbitrators, asters, auditors, aviators, babysitters, backwaters, barometers, barristers, batters, beaters, benefactors, betters, bettors, bitters, blisters, blockbusters, boaters, bolsters, boosters, broadcasters, burgomasters, busters, butters, calculators, canisters, cannisters, capacitors, captors, carburetors, carters, casters, caters, catheters, centimeters, chapters, characters, charters, cheaters, chiropractors, cloisters, clusters, coasters, cogenerators, collaborators, collectors, comforters, commentators, communicators, commuters, competitors, computers, conductors, connectors, conservators, consolidators, conspirators, constrictors, constructors, contractors, contributors, converters, coordinators, copywriters, counterfeiters, craters, creators, creditors, critters, curators, cutters, daughters, debaters, debtors, decorators, defaulters, defectors, defibrillators, demonstrators, depositors, deserters, detectors, detonators, detractors, dictators, dieters, directors, disasters, distributors, doctors, dosimeters, doubters, drafters, drifters, dumpsters, dusters, eaters, editors, educators, elaters, electors, elevators, escalators, esters, estimators, excavators, executors, exhibitors, exporters, exterminators, fabricators, facilitators, factors, falters, fetters, fighters, filibusters, filters, firefighters, floaters, floodwaters, flutters, forecasters, foresters, fosters, frankfurters, freighters, gangbusters, gangsters, garters, gators, generators, getters, gladiators, glitters, granddaughters, gunfighters, gutters, halters, hamsters, harvesters, haters, headquarters, headwaters, heaters, helicopters, hindquarters, hitters, hooters, hucksters, illustrators, imitators, impersonators, importers, impostors, incinerators, incubators, indicators, infiltrators, inhibitors, initiators, injectors, innovators, inquisitors, inspectors, instigators, instructors, insulators, integrators, interceptors, interlocutors, interpreters, interrogators, investigators, investors, irrigators, janitors, jitters, kilometers, lamplighters, legislators, letters, lifters, lighters, liquidators, liters, litigators, litters, lobsters, looters, magnetometers, malefactors, manipulators, marketers, martyrs, masters, matters, mediators, meters, microcomputers, microliters, milliliters, millimeters, minicomputers, ministers, misters, mobsters, moderators, molesters, monitors, monsters, mortars, motors, musters, mutters, narrators, navigators, negotiators, nesters, newscasters, newsletters, objectors, odometers, oldsters, operators, orators, orbiters, originators, oscillators, otters, overnighters, oysters, parameters, pastors, perimeters, perpetrators, persecutors, Peters, picketers, pilasters, plasters, platters, plotters, pollsters, polluters, polyesters, porters, posters, postmasters, potters, predators, predictors, proctors, projectors, promoters, proprietors, prosecutors, prospectors, protectors, protesters, protestors, psalters, putters, quarters, quilters, quitters, radiators, rafters, raptors, raters, reactors, realtors, receptors, recruiters, refractors, refrigerators, registers, regulators, rehabilitators, renovators, repeaters, reporters, resistors, respirators, rioters, roasters, roosters, rooters, rosters, rotors, Salters, scooters, scouters, screenwriters, scriptwriters, sculptors, sectors, seedeaters, semesters, semiconductors, senators, sequesters, sequiturs, setters, sharpshooters, shatters, shelters, shooters, shoplifters, shutters, shysters, simulators, sisters, sitters, skaters, skeeters, skywriters, slaughters, smelters, solicitors, songwriters, sorters, spatters, spectators, speculators, speechwriters, sportscasters, sportswriters, spotters, sputters, squatters, starters, staters, stepdaughters, stepsisters, stimulators, stonecutters, stutters, subcontractors, suitors, supercomputers, superconductors, superminicomputers, supporters, sweaters, syndicators, tartars, tasters, tatars, tatters, teamsters, teeters, telecommuters, telemarketers, testers, theaters, theatres, thermometers, thrusters, toasters, tractors, traitors, transistors, translators, transmitters, transporters, treaters, tricksters, tutors, twisters, typewriters, underwriters, utters, vectors, victors, violators, visitors, voters, waiters, wasters, waters, weightlifters, wildcatters, writers, yachters, youngsters.
6	-e" n t ô' r z	centaurs.
4	-t ô' r z	bookstores, drugstores, superstores.
3	-ô' r z	carnivores, dinosaurs, downpours, encores, indoors, phosphors, sophomores.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: monster.
	Words within the letters "e-m-n-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: mentor, metros, montes, nestor, noters, sermon, stoner, tenors, tensor, toners, trones.
	-2 letters: enorm, meson, metro, monte, mores, morns, morse, morts, moste, motes, nerts, nomes, norms, noter, notes, omens, omers, onset, rents, roset, rotes, senor, seton, smote, snore, snort, steno, stern, stone, store, storm, tenor, terms, terns, tomes, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-n-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: mesotron, monstera, monsters, monteros, mordents, mounters, onstream, remounts, tonearms, torments.
	+2 letters: anterooms, brimstone, emanators, entoderms, fomenters, horsemint, innermost, intercoms, marlstone, mesotrons, mestranol, misorient, modernest, modernist, moistener, monastery, monoester, monsteras, motioners, ornaments, orpiments, oysterman, oystermen, remoisten, remotions, rousement, sportsmen, sternmost, strongmen, thermions, trombones, undermost.
	+3 letters: adornments, aeronomist, antismoker, assortment, astronomer, augmentors, brimstones, brominates, centrosome, concretism, contemners, contemnors, cremations, downstream, endotherms, enormities, enrolments, ergonomist, fermentors, fromenties, gastronome, heteronyms, horsemints, importunes, innermosts, ironmaster, lobsterman, lobstermen, magnetrons, manometers, manticores, marlstones, mellotrons, mentioners, mentorship, mesenteron, mestranols, metronomes, microtones, minestrone, ministroke, minorities, misfortune, misorients, modernists, moisteners, monestrous, monetarism, monetarist, moneyworts, monitories, monoesters, monometers, monotremes, monstrance, morganites, moronities, nanometers, nethermost, numerators, outnumbers, postmodern, premoisten, promptness, protamines, remoistens, remoteness, resumption, rousements, sermonette, smothering, stenotherm, storminess, stramonies, surmounted, tonometers, tormenters, tormentils, tormentors, tremendous, treponemas, treponemes, uniformest, worriments.
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