Definify.com

Webster 1828 Edition

Confidant

CON'FIDANT

,

Noun.

[See Confident.]

Definition 2024

confidant

confidant

English

Noun

confidant ‎(plural confidants)

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, […]

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)
Dutch: vertrouweling, vertrouwelinge
Finnish: uskottu (fi)
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
Portuguese: confidente (pt)
Russian: доверенное лицо n, наперсник (ru) m ‎(napersnik)
Spanish: confidente (es)

See also

confidante

Latin

Verb

cōnfīdant

third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō