Associations to the word «Informant»

Wiktionary

INFORMANT, noun. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
INFORMANT, noun. (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

Dictionary definition

INFORMANT, noun. A person who supplies information.
INFORMANT, noun. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened.

Wise words

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Mark Twain