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Confidante vs Confidant - What's the difference?

confidante | confidant |

As nouns the difference between confidante and confidant

is that confidante is a female confidant while confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

confidante

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A female confidant
  • A type of settee.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 20:
  • *:Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
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    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 ----