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confidant

[ kon-fi-dant, -dahnt, -duhnt, kon-fi-dant, -dahnt ]

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noun

a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.

confidant

/ ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt; ˈkɒnfɪˌdænt /

1705–15; < French confident < Italian confidente, noun use of adj.; confident

C17: from French confident, from Italian confidente , n use of adj: trustworthy, from Latin confīdens confident

When a top Mobutu confidant named Colonel Alphonse Bangala purchased the island, Lometcha bought shares.

A longtime confidant of and lawyer for Lyndon Johnson, Fortas remained a close advisor after joining the Court.

Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.

Otis Moss, Jr., the noted African-American civil rights leader and confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., concurred.

If the President went through with the appointment, he was counting on his confidant to bust open those particular X-Files.

He was at once banker and confidant of most of the Indians who were getting ahead in agriculture and stock-raising.

When M. George Spero was announced, she felt that an unknown friend, almost a confidant, had arrived.

The king and his confidant sprang ashore and walked quickly in the direction of the Pre-aux-Clercs.

She had wanted to make a confidant of her relative, and had decided that nothing could be more unwise.

"I was well advised in not making you my confidant sooner, if this is how you take it," cried Miss Chressham angrily.

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