informant
English Thesaurus
1. a person who supplies information (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | communicator, |
| definition | : | a person who communicates with others (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | leaker, |
| definition | : | a surreptitious informant (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | passive source, |
| definition | : | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has (noun.person) |
2. someone who sees an event and reports what happened (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer, |
| definition | : | someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | attestant, attester, |
| definition | : | someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something (noun.person) |
3. a person who supplies information (noun.person)
| derivation | : | inform, inform, |
| definition | : | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to (verb.communication) |
4. someone who sees an event and reports what happened (noun.person)
| derivation | : | witness, |
| definition | : | be a witness to (verb.perception) |
5. a person who supplies information (noun.person)
| derivation | : | inform, inform, |
| definition | : | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to (verb.communication) |
6. someone who sees an event and reports what happened (noun.person)
| derivation | : | witness, |
| definition | : | be a witness to (verb.perception) |
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