What does confidante mean?
Definitions for confidante
ˌkɒn fɪˈdænt, -ˈdɑnt, ˈkɒn fɪˌdænt, -ˌdɑntcon·fi·dante
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Princeton's WordNet
confidantenoun
a female confidant
Wiktionary
confidantenoun
a female confidant
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confidante
The confidant ( or ; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts. Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the narrative.
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confidante
A confidante is a person with whom one shares personal or private matters, secrets, or feelings, trusting them not to disclose these to others. They are often a close friend or person who is considered reliable and trustworthy.
Webster Dictionary
Confidante
one to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend
Etymology: [F. confident, confidente, formerly also spelt confidant, confidante. See Confide, and cf. Confident.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confidante in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confidante in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of confidante in a Sentence
He's a confidante, he's my mentor, he is just one of the guys, who will lend a hand, who genuinely cares. I have not come across that ever in my life.
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She’s been my saving grace, my confidante and friend. [One] night, we were out in the garden talking as we were pulling weeds and watering plants. In its own little way, it was a very romantic evening.
CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidante said that GOP senators were warned: vote against your president ... and your head will be on a pike, i hope it's not true. But I was struck by the irony of the idea, when we're talking about a president who would make himself a monarch, that whoever that was would use the terminology of a penalty that was imposed by a monarch, a head on a pike.
Garrett is, or was, the most selfless person I knew. Always there as kind of my confidante, my brother, he put up with me. I kind of was pushing him probably over the edge at times, and he always had the patience to calm me down, and Kurt Aichele know we worked together like brother and sister would.
Everyone was her sister, everyone was her trusted confidante, everyone was her friend.
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- المقربArabic
- confidenteItalian
- 親友Japanese
- powiernicaPolish
- confidentePortuguese
- người tin tưởngVietnamese
- 紅顏知己Chinese
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