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.
Examples of confidante in a Sentence
Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Fluent in English and married to a close friend of Putin’s daughter, Dmitriev, 49, is a longtime confidante of the Russian leader, entrusted with running the country’s sovereign wealth fund and a key player in the recent high-level talks in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine.
—Keir Simmons, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2025
No sooner than Baba turns up dead Lucky (Poorna Jagannathan, Never Have I Ever), who is described as Baba's confidante, shows up and teaches them the ways of their family's secret enterprise.
—Stacy Lambe, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Hannigan shared the screen with Trachtenberg for three seasons on the supernatural drama as Willow Rosenberg, a trusted friend and confidante to Trachtenberg's Dawn Summers.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Confidante.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confidante. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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