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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

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras