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confidant

noun
/ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/US/ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French confident.

  1. borrowed from confident

Definitions

  1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets

    A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

    • Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]
    • One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, — a power we lived to evade, — we had no confidants save ourselves.
    • 'Of course'—implied the loyal manager, and 'Oh, of course; not a word,' assented his confidant.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA