confidant

From French confident.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/, /ˈkɒn.fɪˌdænt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dant

confidant (plural confidants)

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

   Hyponym: confidante

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller, published 1808, page 223:

     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, […]

   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:

     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.

   • 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.

• confidante

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈfiː.dant]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈfiː.d̪an̪t̪]

cōnfīdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō