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Definition of intimate noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

intimate

noun
 
/ˈɪntɪmət/
 
/ˈɪntɪmət/
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  1. a close personal friend
    • He was a wartime minister and intimate of Churchill.
    Topics Family and relationshipsc2
    Word Originnoun early 17th cent. (as a noun): from late Latin intimatus, past participle of Latin intimare ‘impress, make familiar’, from intimus ‘inmost’.
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