🇬🇧🇪🇸 confidence - secreto : English Lesson

Meaning of "confidence" ("secreto"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Confidence is when you share a secret or private thought with someone because you strongly believe they will not tell anyone else. When someone says, “I’m telling you this in confidence,” it means they trust you to keep it quiet and not repeat it. A confidence is also the special, trusting feeling between people who know they can safely share secrets with each other.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My sister told me in confidence that she can’t whistle, so I made a ‘Secret Non-Whistlers Club’ just for us.

My cousin told me in confidence that he doesn’t know how to snap his fingers, so now we just clap very quietly together instead.

I told Grandma in confidence that I don’t like her broccoli surprise, and she quietly started serving me extra mashed potatoes instead.

My brother shared in confidence that he doesn’t understand long division, so we attacked the homework together like two confused superheroes.

The phrase “in confidence” has been used for hundreds of years to mean sharing a secret with trust—so when knights whispered battle plans in confidence, they were basically having ancient secret-club meetings.

On the park bench, Anna whispered a small confidence into her friend's ear. The friend held the confidence like a warm stone, nodding. A passerby asked what happened; she smiled and said nothing, guarding that confidence. At home, she wrote the confidence in a note and locked it away, relieved. She kept that confidence like a promise.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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