Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confidant, especially one who is a woman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female confidant.
- noun The name given by the English designer Hepplewhite to a species of sofa, similar to an ordinary stuffed couch, with additional seats at the ends, all made in one.
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- noun a female
confidant
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- noun a female confidant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jackson, his chief of staff and confidante, is revered as someone who can deliver him news that he won't hear from anyone else.
The rise, fall and rise of John Boehner Paul Kane 2010
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Kenneth M. Duberstein, the former Reagan chief of staff and McCain confidante who made an 11th-hour endorsement of Mr. Obama.
Life of the Party: They’re Back! - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Kenneth M. Duberstein, the former Reagan chief of staff and McCain confidante who made an 11th-hour endorsement of Mr. Obama.
Life of the Party: They’re Back! - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said that with a close Putin confidante now starting a five year term as Moscow's mayor, it is clear where power really lies in Russia today.
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Trevor removed fiscal authority from Mulla Shakur who served as Shuja's main confidante while pensioning in Ludiana.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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At this present their go-between and confidante is a slave-girl who hath till now kept their counsel, but I fear lest haply anxiety get the better of her and she discover their secret to some one and the matter, being bruited abroad, might bring me to great grief and prove the cause of my ruin; for I have no excuse to offer my accusers.
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The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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My confidante was my former business partner Adam.
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My confidante was my former business partner Adam.
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But that was to name confidante James Baker Secretary of State just days after the election.
Prolagus commented on the word confidante
If I take you on will you be pliable?
As a confidante I’m quite reliable
Dreamer though you are
It is you that’s been my signpost so far.
(The psychiatrist is in, by God Help The Girl)
October 20, 2009