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confidant (s) (noun), confidants (pl)
A man who is trusted with private or personal affairs and secrets: As a lawyer, Sam was a confidant of the owner of the company.

A confidant can't always be trusted as indicated in the illustration below.

Someone who shares secrets with another person.
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This entry is located in the following units: -ant, -ants (page 3) fid-, fidel- (page 1)
confidant, confidante, confident
confidant (KAHN fi dant", KAHN fi dahnt") (noun)
Someone with whom secret or confidential information may be shared: The king’s trusted confidant was his uncle.
confidante [feminine form] (KAHN fi dahnt") (noun)
Female form of "confidant": The queen’s confidante was a young woman she had known from childhood.
confident (KAHN fi duhnt) (adjective)
To be sure of oneself: Being confident is the feeling a person has before he, or she, knows better.

I am confident that a confidante is someone who never betrays a confidence without first imposing the strictest secrecy.

Confident is the feeling some people have before they know better.

Word Entries at Get Words: “confidant
Someone to whom another person shares secrets or personal information. (1)