Usually means: Trusted person for sharing secrets.
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  1. confidant: Merriam-Webster
  2. confidant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confidant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confidant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confidant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confidant, confidant: Wordnik
  7. confidant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confidant: Wiktionary
  9. confidant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confidant (confidante): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confidant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confidant, confidant: Dictionary.com
  13. confidant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Confidant, The Confidant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Confidant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confidant: Rhymezone
  17. confidant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. confidant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. confidant: FreeDictionary.org
  20. confidant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. confidant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. confidant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. confidant: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

Similar:
intimate, confidante, confident, confidee, confider, confidente, privado, repository, trusty, fellow, more...

Opposite:
stranger, acquaintance, familiar

Types:
best friend, mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, cousin, uncle, aunt, more...

Adjectives:
close, only, chief, intimate, sole, political, personal, old, special, former, principal

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    royal blue,     emerald,     burgundy,     charcoal,     teal, more...



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Similar:
intimate, confidante, confident, confidee, confider, confidente, privado, repository, trusty, fellow, more...

Opposite:
stranger, acquaintance, familiar

Types:
best friend, mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, cousin, uncle, aunt, more...

Adjectives:
close, only, chief, intimate, sole, political, personal, old, special, former, principal

Colors:
    royal blue,     emerald,     burgundy,     charcoal,     teal, more...



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