单词	confidant
释义	confidantcon‧fi‧dant /ˈkɒnfədænt, ˌkɒnfəˈdænt, -ˈdɑːnt $ ˈkɑːnfədænt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINconfidant Origin: 1600-1700 confident Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Alvin met the genial master poet Langston Hughes, who became a lifelong friend and confidant. His confidants are throwbacks to the past, lukewarm at best to economic and political pluralism. I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school. Joe also became a friend of presidential confidant Harry Hopkins, a former social worker and son of an Iowa harness maker. Theo must have known in any case: he was always his parents' confidant and advisor, as well as his brother's. Why is he my main role model and confidant? Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► close · Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent.· He has been one of Diana's closest confidants during the difficult years of her rocky marriage.· Freemantle and the newly ordained Richard Grey remained Crewe's closest confidants through the last years of his life.· After the death of Ludovico's father, Giancarlo had become his closest confidant.· Geoff in turn was a close confidant of Steen Willadsen.· Globke was the closest confidant and adviser of Adenauer, who could stand in for the Chancellor.· Davidson was a close friend and confidant of Stanley Baldwin. Word family WORD FAMILYnounconfidenceconfidantconfidentialityadjectiveconfidentconfidentialadverbconfidentlyconfidentiallyverbconfide someone you tell your secrets to or who you talk to about personal things
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