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Webster 1913 Edition


Confidante

{

Conˊfi-dant′

; 277),
Noun.
m
asc.
,

Conˊfi-dante′

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
fem.
}
[F.
confident
,
confidente
, formerly also spelt
confidant
,
confidante
. See
Confide
, and cf.
Confident
.]
One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom 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.

Definition 2024


confidante

confidante

English

Noun

confidante (plural confidantes)

  1. A female confidant.
  2. A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 20:
      Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.

Italian

Verb

confidante

  1. present participle of confidare