Informant

What do we mean by informant?

One that gives information. noun

One who informs against others; an informer. noun

One who furnishes linguistic or cultural information to a researcher. noun

Giving form; transmuting matter by communicating to it a form; informing.

One who informs or gives information; an informer. noun

Synonyms Informant, Informer. Informant is special, relating only to a given occasion: as, who was your informant? Informer may be special or general, relating to one occasion or, more commonly, to a practice or occupation, as implying a habit of informing, or a dishonorable betrayal of knowledge gained in confidence. It has acquired odious associations. noun

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. noun

One who imparts information or instruction. noun

One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer. noun

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer. noun

One who provides information about their language. noun

Someone who sees an event and reports what happened noun

A person who supplies information noun

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

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.

To dispense information, as coined by Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff. Urban Dictionary

A person whom the government pay to snitch on people. Sometimes they work as double agents informing drug houses of a comming raid. Urban Dictionary

An undercover agent. Usually in alliance with the cops. Informs about illegal activities. Urban Dictionary

To inform or give information to a person or group. Urban Dictionary

A new term thats spreading across the US like wildfire. Information means marijuana, and to be informed means to be high. Urban Dictionary

A more proper way to say 'slang'. Urban Dictionary

Information is data that is available to humans though the normal means of perception like sight, hearing, touch and maybe others. Urban Dictionary

Information is facts that give people knowledge. Urban Dictionary

Someone who feeds back all the gossip/information back to the person your taking about Urban Dictionary

Something that an average American needs more of. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to informant:
informant, informal, formant, informing, informants, informa, conformant, informate, informar.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word informant:
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Words that rhyme with informant:
dormant, formant, norment, storment, self-dormant.

Adjectives that are often used to describe informant:
key, same, native, confidential, reliable, single, principal, anonymous, chief, old, female, male, main, best, local, only, elderly, second, paid, particular, primary, potential, knowledgeable, indian, valuable, original, third, excellent, unnamed, secret, undercover, unidentified, aged, older, intelligent, oldest, linguistic, cultural, unknown, sole, mysterious, ideal, unreliable, class, trustworthy, useful, willing, chinese, federal, oral, mexican, prospective, friendly, criminal, speaking, bilingual, inside, arab, helpful, cooperative, informed, younger, reluctant, cultured.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective informant:
interviews, reports, correlations, interview, accuracy, report, information, work, data, relationship, statements, agreement, testimony, interviewing, states, approach, accounts, selection, syndromes, reliability, groups, error, bias, ratings, responses, saith, assessment, variability, variance, reaction, recall, response, judgments, comparisons, presentation, session, use, anonymity, friends, technique, method, relationships, confidentiality, consistency, sessions, study, files, readers, families, recognition, questionnaires, design, questionnaire, researcher, feedback, constructs, note, chart, perceptions, faith, scales, narratives, testing, names, program, measures, texts, tests, mouradian, categories, estimates, networks, discrepancies, test, variation, drill, claims, version, legitimacy, memory, descriptions.

Words that sound like informant:
informant, informants, enforcement, informing, interment, in front, informa, informity, empowerment, in for it, informed, endearment, informal, impairment, informally, invariant, inerrant, enforcements, conferment, immurement, informous, infortunate, infortune, affirmant, enlargement, in harmony, inharmony, information, infinite, infant, enjoyment, investment, unfortunate, inform, enviroment, inherent, informative, reinforcement, informer, enormity, increment, internment, conformance, influent, informs, informations, unformed, deferment, informers, indorsement, effacement, ensnarement, informe, norment, interments, confirmand, environed, effrayant, unformal, in form, enamorment, in formation, reformate, intermine, incurrent, inornate.