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confidante Definition

con·fi·dante (-dant′, -dänt′)

noun

a woman or girl confidant

confidante Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • trust: I passed your email address on to Rhondda Valley as she is my most trusted confidante.
  • become: Thus Protestant learners often become the unwitting confidantes of Catholic Irish speakers who bitterly resent the republican image of the Irish language.
  • have: It really matters that our stateside counterparts, and perhaps we British, have fewer confidantes.
  • make: Her maid, of whom she had been obliged to make a confidante, had had her bled by a student, her lover.

Adjective modifier

  • close: Constance, his closest female confidante, is a woman he might have loved.
  • female: Constance, his closest female confidante, is a woman he might have loved.
  • only: His only confidante remains night club singer Jenny, whose physical restoration fuels the flame of his spiritual redemption.
  • few: It really matters that our stateside counterparts, and perhaps we British, have fewer confidantes.
  • former: A former confidante of Ferdinand Marcos, Curtis possessed copies of the 172 treasure maps made by Japanese cartographers.
  • personal: What would you call a dog that would protect you to the end; Who would be your personal trainer confidante and best friend?