CONFIDANTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confidante mean? 

• CONFIDANTE (noun)
  The noun CONFIDANTE has 1 sense:

1. a female confidant

  Familiarity information: CONFIDANTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIDANTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female confidant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("confidante" is a kind of...):

confidant; intimate (someone to whom private matters are confided)

 Context examples 

I'm sober and sensible enough for anyone's confidante now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?), must from situation be at this time the intimate friend and confidante of her sister.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

No want of understrappers: my sister desires her love, and hopes to be admitted into the company, and will be happy to take the part of any old duenna or tame confidante, that you may not like to do yourselves.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many intimates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Aunt Dodo was chief playmate and confidante of both children, and the trio turned the little house topsy-turvy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of Edward, or at least of some of his concerns, she now received intelligence from Colonel Brandon, who had been into Dorsetshire lately; and who, treating her at once as the disinterested friend of Mr. Ferrars, and the kind confidante of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Jane's delicate sense of honour would not allow her to speak to Elizabeth privately of what Lydia had let fall; Elizabeth was glad of it;—till it appeared whether her inquiries would receive any satisfaction, she had rather be without a confidante.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)