confidant

English

Etymology

From French confident.

Pronunciation

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

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• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dant

Noun

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.

Translations

person in whom one can confide

• Bulgarian: довереник (bg) m (doverenik), верен приятел (veren prijatel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密友 (zh) (mìyǒu), 知己 (zh) (zhījǐ)

• Czech: důvěrník (cs) m
• Danish: fortrolig
• Dutch: vertrouweling (nl), vertrouwelinge (nl)
• Egyptian: (mḥ-jb m), (ꜥq-jb m), (ḥrj-sštꜣ m), (mḥnk m)
• Finnish: uskottu (fi)
• French: confidente (fr) f, confident (fr) m
• German: Vertrauter m
• Hungarian: kebelbarát (hu) m, kebelbarátnő f, bizalmas barát
• Icelandic: trúnaðarmaður m, trúnaðarvinur m, (obsolete, female) rún (is), (obsolete, female) rúna f
• Ido: konfidencario (io)
• Irish: rúnaí m, anamchara m, cara rúin m, rúnchara m
• Ottoman Turkish: بطانه (bıtane)
• Polish: powiernik (pl) m, powierniczka f, zausznik (pl) m, zausznica f
• Portuguese: confidente (pt)
• Russian: доверенное лицо n, наперсник (ru) m (napersnik)
• Spanish: confidente (es)
• Tagalog: kapalagayang-loob
• Turkish: dert ortağı (tr), sırdaş (tr)

See also

• confidante

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈfiː.dant/, [kõːˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfi.dant/, [koɱˈfiːd̪än̪t̪]

Verb

cōnfīdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō