Confidant vs Bedfellow - What's the difference?
confidant | bedfellow | Related terms |
a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
One with whom one shares a bed.
* 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .
An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
* 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux ,
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Confidant is a related term of bedfellow.
As nouns the difference between confidant and bedfellow
is that confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend while bedfellow is one with whom one shares a bed.confidant
English
Noun
(en noun)- You love me for no other end / Than to become my confidant and friend; / As such I keep no secret from your sight. — Dryden.
See also
* confidante ----bedfellow
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
- ''Whither away, or where is thy abode?
- ''Happy the parents of so fair a child;
- ''Happier the man whom favourable stars
- Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .
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