confidant

From French confident.

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

confidant (plural confidants)

1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller (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.

• confidante

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈfiː.dant/, [kõːˈfiː.dant]

cōnfīdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō