Meaning of INFORMANT
| Pronunciation: | | in'formunt
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- [n] a person who supplies information
- [n] someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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| | Synonyms: | | source, witness, witnesser |
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| | See Also: | | attestant, attester, beholder, betrayer, blabber, communicator, deponent, informer, leaker, observer, perceiver, rat, speaker, squealer, talker, testifier, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*form"ant\, n. [L. informans, -antis, p. pr. of
informare. See {Inform}, v. t.]
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.
[Obs.] --Glanvill.
2. One who imparts information or instruction.
3. One who offers an accusation; an informer. See {Informer}.
[Obs. or R.]
It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant
was hanged. --Burke.
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| | Definition: | | a person who provides information about his or her culture to the ethnographic fieldworker. |
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| | Related Terms: | | adviser, announcer, annunciator, attestant, attestator, attester, authority, bystander, channel, cojuror, communicant, communicator, compurgator, deponent, earwitness, enlightener, examinant, examinate, examinee, expert witness, eyewitness, gossipmonger, grapevine, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, monitor, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, passerby, press, public relations officer, publisher, questionee, quizzee, radio, reporter, source, spectator, spokesman, subject, swearer, television, teller, testifier, tipster, tout, voucher, witness |
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