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

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates