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Another word for confidant

Noun

  1. One in whom secrets are confided

    2. See also:

    words

    show

  2. A person whom one knows well, likes, and trusts

    3. See also:

    love

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Another word for confidant

Noun
    2. See also:

    friend

    adviser

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Sentence Examples

  • In London he became Pip's intimate confidant.

  • Vorontsov, the empress's confidant, who shared his political views.

  • Determined to make his way in this "new Promised Land," the young adventurer contrived to secure the protection of Kristoffer Gabel, the king's confidant, and in 1663 was appointed the royal librarian.

  • Ancus Marcius is merely a duplicate of Numa, as is shown by his second name, Numa Marcius, the confidant and pontifex of Numa, being no other than Numa Pompilius himself, represented as priest.

  • Too much in awe of his father to make him a confidant, he wrestled in the gloomy solitude of his own mind.

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