confidante
noun
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Is it confident or confidant? (Or is it confidante?)
If you find yourself unsure whether you should choose confident or confidant don’t feel bad; confidant comes to English from the French word confident, and when the word first entered our language it was often spelled that way, rather than as confidant. The difference is quite simple: confidant is a noun (meaning "a person in whom you confide things"), and confident is an adjective (defined as “having confidence”). You may well be confident in your confidant, but you would not be confidant in your confident. Although this distinction has not always been observed by writers, confidante is generally used for a female confidant. The word confidant is more frequently used to describe a man, but it may be applied to either gender.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
In 2017, Politico reported that during Trump’s 2016 campaign, his former bodyguard and confidante Keith Schiller would routinely go to the McDonald’s near the Marine Air Terminal in Queens while Trump waited in the limousine.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
Over time, Mintz became one of their closest confidantes.
—Liz McNeil, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Jean-Pierre will now be alongside the ranks of the president's top confidantes like senior advisers Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti and Bruce Reed.
—Mary Bruce, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Confidante.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confidante. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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