Confidant vs Lover - What's the difference?
confidant | lover | Related terms |
a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
* Shakespeare
A sexual partner.
A person who loves something.
As nouns the difference between confidant and lover
is that confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend while lover is one who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.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 ----lover
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal or obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.
- a lover of fine wines
- a lover of his country
- All right, me lover?
