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Confidant vs Playmate - What's the difference?

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Confidant is a related term of playmate.


As nouns the difference between confidant and playmate

is that confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend while playmate is a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.

confidant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
  • 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 ----

    playmate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
  • *
  • *:An indulgent playmate , Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • A female who has appeared as the centerfold in magazine.
  • Synonyms

    * (companion for playing) playfellow