An intimate, confidential, or trusted friend or adviser; a confidant; an intimate. Obsolete.

One who is entrusted with private or secret matters; a confidant; one privy to a secret. Obsolete.

one who is entrusted with designs, secrets, etc. by another; a confidant.

A trusty friend or adherent; one in whom one confides; a confidential friend.

= secretary, n.1 1.

A person who is trusted, or to whom a particular role or task is entrusted; a person in whom confidence is placed.

slang. Originally in the alliterative phrase trueor trusty trout, a confidential friend or servant; so humble trout. Obsolete.

A female confidant.

‘A person trusted with private affairs, commonly with affairs of love’ (Johnson). In later use applied somewhat more widely, so as to take the…