protégé

See also: protege, protegé, protége, protège, and Protegé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒt.ə.ʒeɪ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊ.təˌʒeɪ/

Noun

protégé (plural protégés)

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

Synonyms

mentee (more informal)
pupil

Related terms

protégée (feminine form)

Translations

person who is guided and supported

Arabic: ربيب‎, مَحْمِيّ‎ (maḥmiyy)
Chinese: 徒弟 (zh)
Dutch: protegé (nl) m
Finnish: suojatti
French: protégé (fr) m, protégée (fr) f
German: Günstling (de) m, Protegé (de) m (both with a negative connotation), Mündel (de) n, Schützling (de) m
Greek: προστατευόμενος (el) m (prostatevómenos), προστατευομένη f (prostatevoméni)
Japanese: 子飼い (こがい, kogai), プロテジェ (puroteje)
Macedonian: штитеник m (štitenik)

Maori: paruhi
Portuguese: protegido (pt) m
Russian: протеже́ (ru) m or f (protɛžé)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: штићеник m

Roman: štićenik (sh) m
Swedish: protegé (sv) c, skyddsling (sv) c
Tagalog: tagapagtanod
Turkish: çırak (tr)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/

Verb

protégé m (feminine singular protégée, masculine plural protégés, feminine plural protégées)

past participle of protéger (protected)

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