Confidant

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=fi=dant

CIDE DICTIONARY

Confidant, n. masc. [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.  [1913 Webster]
"You love me for no other end
Than to become my confidant and friend;
As such I keep no secret from your sight."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Confidant, n. (fem. confidante pronunc. same) a person trusted with knowledge of one's private affairs.

Etymology

18th-c. for earlier confident n., prob. to represent the pronunc. of F confidente (as confide)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Confidant

CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by _him_ to C.

THESAURUS

Confidant

Dutch uncle, Polonius, acquaintance, admonisher, adviser, advocate, alter ego, amigo, backer, backseat driver, best friend, bosom friend, brother, buttinsky, casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, confidante, consultant, counsel, counselor, expert, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, fidus Achates, friend, guide, inseparable friend, instructor, intimate, kibitzer, lover, man Friday, mate, meddler, mentor, monitor, neighbor, nestor, orienter, other self, partisan, pickup, preceptist, repository, right hand, right-hand man, second self, strong right hand, supporter, sympathizer, teacher, well-wisher

ROGET THESAURUS

Confidant

Auxiliary

N auxiliary, recruit, assistant, adjuvant, adjutant, ayudante, coaid, adjunct, help, helper, help mate, helping hand, midwife, colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator, coadjutor, coadjutrix, collaborator, ally, friend, confidant, fidus Achates, pal, buddy, alter ego, confederate, accomplice, complice, accessory, accessory after the fact, particeps criminis, socius criminis, aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal, right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer, candle- holder, bottle-holder, handmaid, servant, puppet, cat's-paw, jackal, tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee, satellite, adherent, votary, sectarian, secretary, seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator, angel (theater, entertainment), friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel, tutelary genius.