protégé

See also Protegé

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French protégé, past participle of protéger (“to protect”).

Noun

protégé (plural protégés)

1. A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person or mentor.

   While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University. — Manifold Destiny by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, The New Yorker

Related terms

• protégée (feminine form)

Translations

person who is guided and supported

Arabic: ربيب (ar), محمي (ar) Croatian: štićenik (hr) m.

Finnish: suojatti Greek: προστατευόμενος (hr) m., προστατευομένη (hr) f. (prostatevomenos\prostatevomeni), German: Protegé m., Schützling m.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/, SAMPA: /pRO.te.Ze/

Verb

protégé m. (f protégée, m plural protégés, f plural protégées)

1. Past participle of protéger (protected)