intimate
noun/ˈɪntɪmət/
/ˈɪntɪmət/
(formal)- a close personal friend
- He was a wartime minister and intimate of Churchill.
Word Originnoun early 17th cent. (as a noun): from late Latin intimatus, past participle of Latin intimare ‘impress, make familiar’, from intimus ‘inmost’.Definitions on the go
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