confidant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/, /ˈkɒn.fɪˌdænt/
(file) (file) - Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dant
Noun[edit]
confidant (plural confidants)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
person in whom one can confide
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Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfiː.dant/, [kõːˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfi.dant/, [koɱˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]
Verb[edit]
cōnfīdant
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