Definitions for confidante

confidante con·fi·dante

Spelling: [kon-fi-dant, -dahnt, kon-fi-dant, -dahnt]
IPA: /ˌkɒn fɪˈdænt, -ˈdɑnt, ˈkɒn fɪˌdænt, -ˌdɑnt/

Confidante is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 651 anagrams from letters in confidante (acdefinnot).

Definitions for confidante

noun

  1. a woman to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
  2. Furniture. confidente.
  3. a sofa or settee, especially of the 18th century, having a triangular seat at each end divided from the greater part of the seat by an armrest.

Origin of confidante

First recorded in 1700-10, confidante is from the French word confidente

Examples for confidante

Mary drank to mask her pain, wipe out her feelings, and sleep,” says a confidante, “not get drunk.

Briefly she outlined the situation to Emma, who had long been her confidante.

But that which especially distressed her now was that she had not made a confidante of Hubertine.

His confidante, Louis Howe, reminded FDR there had never been a divorced president.

Dame Maggie Smith's fiery Dowager Countess will get a confidante in the form of Lady Shackleton, played by Dame Harriet Walters.

If you do not wish to make a confidante of me, Josephine, I am sorry for it, but not offended.

It is, indeed, true that I have not done right, inasmuch as I have not made you my confidante.

He didn't much want the job, he was more fulfilled as Jack's confidante that he was ever likely to be as Jack's heir.

"Monsieur's confidante is always at his distinguished service," she said.

Keckley eventually bought her own freedom, becoming a successful seamstress and a confidante to the first lady.

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