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confidants

confidants is the plural of confidant.

Meaning of confidant

Noun

confidant (plural confidants)

  1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
    • Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller, published 1808, page 223

Questions about confidants

What is confidants the plural of?
Confidants is the plural of confidant.

Words near confidants in the dictionary

  1. confidable
  2. confidant
  3. confidante
  4. confidantes
  5. confidantly
  6. confidants
  7. confide
  8. confided
  9. confidee
  10. confidees
  11. confidence

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