PROTEGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protege mean? 

• PROTEGE (noun)
  The noun PROTEGE has 1 sense:

1. a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

  Familiarity information: PROTEGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTEGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("protege" is a kind of...):

receiver; recipient (a person who receives something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protege"):

protegee (a woman protege)

 Context examples 

In a way he is my protege.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Meanwhile she lay on her bed with old Joanna at her side, for even in her wanderings she did not forget her forlorn protege.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In defence of your protege you can even be saucy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

William and Fanny soon shewed themselves; and Sir Thomas had the pleasure of receiving, in his protege, certainly a very different person from the one he had equipped seven years ago, but a young man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but feeling and respectful manners, and such as confirmed him his friend.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My protege, as you call him, is a sensible man; and sense will always have attractions for me.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then, too, he is my first boy friend—but not exactly friend; rather protege and friend combined.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)