confidant

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA: /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/

Noun

confidant (plural confidants)

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

   You love me for no other end / Than to become my confidant and friend; / As such I keep no secret from your sight. — Dryden.

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: довереник (bg) (doverenik) m, верен приятел (bg) (veren prijatel)
• Dutch: vertrouweling (nl), vertrouwelinge (nl)
• Hungarian: kebelbarát (hu) m, kebelbarátnő (hu) f, bizalmas barát (hu)
• Icelandic: trúnaðarmaður (is) m, trúnaðarvinur (is) m, (obsolete, female) rún (is), (obsolete, female) rúna (is) f

• Irish: rúnaí (ga) m
• Portuguese: confidente (pt)
• Russian: доверенное лицо n, наперсник m
• Spanish: confidente (es)

See also

• confidante

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Latin

Verb

cōnfīdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō