From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprotégéprot‧é‧gé /ˈprɒtəʒeɪ $ ˈproʊ-/ noun [countable] SEsomeone, especially a young person, who is taught and helped by someone who has influence, power, or more experience She attempted to encourage her young protégé.
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protégé• A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely.• I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.• She'd been taken on by Harman almost as - well yes, his protégé really.• That leadership itself fell to Buxton, he argued, as a protégé of Clapham.Origin protégé (1700-1800) French past participle of protéger, from Latin protegere; → PROTECT 