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Definition: Confidant |
ConfidantNoun1. Someone to whom private matters are confided. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "confidant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | CONFIDANT, :CONFIDANTE:, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: ConfidantSynonym: intimate (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Ally; friend; confidant, fidus Achates, pal, buddy, alter ego. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Confidant |
| English words defined with "confidant": 1st Baron Beaverbrook ♦ Beaverbrook ♦ confidante ♦ intimate ♦ Privado ♦ William Maxwell Aitken. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "confidant": Dariolet, Dariolette, Daronne ♦ Frogs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "confidant": Secretary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Uh, pledge to be your friend, and your wife, and your confidant, and your sex poodle (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Ghana | On June 9, police and BNI officers forcibly entered an adjacent house and arrested a Belizian national who is a long-time confidant of Rawlings, and searched the house for weapons; no weapons were found. (references) |
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| "Confidant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Confidant" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
confidant | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "confidant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shok i ngushtë (chum), njeri i besuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاتم السر, صديق حميم (brother, chum, confident), المؤتمنة على الأسرار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | верен приятел. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dùvìrník (fiduciary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محرم اسرار (Privy, Secretary), رازدار (Confident, Repository, Secretary), دمساز (Compatible, Helpmate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uskottu (confidante, intimate, trusted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | confident. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vertraute (confidante, confided, familiar, intimate, trusted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έμπιστοσ φίλοσ, μυστικόσ σύμβουλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | איש סו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kebelbarát (bosom friend, intimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | confidente (confident, informer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 懐刀 (dagger, right-hand man), 心'許せる人 (one's trusted friend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふと"ろがたな (dagger, right-hand man), ""ろ'ゆるせるひと (one's trusted friend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | carrey coyrlee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfidantcay confidente (confidante, confident, fiduciary, insider), amigo íntimo (bosom buddy, cater-cousin, close friend, confident, crony, sidekick). (various references) confident (confident). (various references) наперсник, задушевный друг. (various references) prisan prijatelj (crony). (various references) corrido (abashed, confident, confused, experienced, extra), confidente (confidante, confident, trusted), confiado (confident, gullible, gullibly, jaunty, reliant, trustful), seguro (airtight, assurance, assured, confident, definitely, dependable, diaper, in the bag, infallible, insurance, insurance policy, odds-on, positive, reliable, safe, secure, sure, sure fire, trust, tumbler), puesto en sí mismo (confident), persona segura (confident). (various references) förtrogen (confidential, conversant, familiar, familiar with, intimate). (various references) sırdaş (confidante, in the secret, intimate, repository, the initiated), dert ortağı (companion in misfortune, fellow sufferer). (various references) повірник (repository), довірена особа (confidante, confident, warrantee). (various references) bạn tâm tình. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arcanis, arcano, arcanum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gehola, runwita. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | secretarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "confidant": confidante, confidantes, confidants. (additional references) | |
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"Confidant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cofiant, comfidant, confidat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "confidant" (pronounced kÄ"nfudÄ'nt) |
| 3 | -Ä' n t | debutante, Piedmont, restaurant, storefront. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-i-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: actinon, contain, faction, factoid, fondant, fontina, nonacid, nonfact. | |
-3 letters: action, anodic, anoint, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, confit, dacoit, fanion, fantod, incant, infant, nation, nonfat, tannic. | |
-4 letters: actin, ancon, anion, antic, canid, canon, canto, coati, conin, cotan, danio, dicot, dicta, donna, faint, fanon, nicad, niton, octad, octan, ontic, tondi, tonic. | |
-5 letters: acid, adit, anon, anti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-f-i-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: confidante, confidants. | |
+2 letters: confidantes, fecundation. | |
+3 letters: confidential, difunctional, fecundations, nidification. | |
+4 letters: confederating, confederation, dandification, densification, disfunctional, dysfunctional, malfunctioned, nidifications. | |
+5 letters: confederations, confidentially, dandifications, decaffeination, denazification, densifications, identification. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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