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1. (n.) informant
a person who informs or gives information; informer.
2. informant
a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
3. informant
a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances or other data for one analyzing or learning the language.
Etymology: (1655–65; < L)
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| Definition of 'informant' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) informant, source
a person who supplies information
2. (noun) witness, witnesser, informant
someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) informant
one who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies
2. (verb) informant
one who imparts information or instruction
3. (verb) informant
one who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer
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Sense: someone who tells or informs
He passed on the news to us, but would not say who his informant had been.
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 Afrikaans: informant |
 Arabic: مُخْبِر |
 Bulgarian: информатор |
 Brazilian: informante |
 Czech: informátor, -ka |
 German: der Gewährsmann |
 Danish: meddeler |
 Greek: πληροφοριοδότης |
 Spanish: informante |
 Estonian: informant |
 Farsi: خبرچین |
 Finnish: tietolähde |
 French: informateur/-trice |
 Hebrew: מוֹסֵר מֵידָע |
 Hindi: सूचना देने वाला, सूचक |
 Croatian: izvjestitelj |
 Hungarian: informátor; adatközlő |
 Indonesian: informan |
 Icelandic: heimildamaður, uppljóstra |
 Italian: informatore, informatrice |
 Japanese: 情報提供者 |
 Korean: 통보자, 정보 제공자 |
 Lithuanian: informatorius |
 Latvian: informators; informētājs |
 Malay: informan |
 Dutch: zegsman |
 Norwegian: hjemmelsmann, kilde, info |
 Polish: informator |
 Persian: خبرچین |
 Pashto: خبري ټولونكي |
 Portuguese: informador |
 Romanian: sursă (de informare) |
 Russian: информатор |
 Slovak: informátor, -ka |
 Slovenian: obveščevalec |
 Serbian: doušnik |
 Swedish: sagesman, källa |
 Thai: ผู้บอก |
 Turkish: bilgi veren kimse, ihbarc |
 Taiwanese: 線民，告密者 |
 Ukrainian: інформатор; донощик |
 Urdu: مخبر |
 Vietnamese: người cung cấp tin |
 Chinese: 提供消息的人，密告者 |
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