different between confidant vs playfellow

English

Etymology

From French confident.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f?.d?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f??dænt/, /?k?n.f??dænt/
• Hyphenation: con?fi?dant

Noun

confidant (plural confidants)

1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller (1808), page 223:

     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, […]

Translations

See also

• confidante

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?fi?.dant/, [kõ??fi?d?än?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?fi.dant/, [k?n?fi?d??n?t?]

Verb

c?nf?dant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of c?nf?d?

English

Etymology

play +? fellow

Noun

playfellow (plural playfellows)

1. (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     "I’ve brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5

     Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows--carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIX:

     "Linton is just six months younger than I am, {...} How delightful it will be to have him for a playfellow!"