English noun: informant |
1. | informant (person) a person who supplies information |
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| Synonyms | source |
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| Broader (hypernym) | communicator |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | betrayer, blabber, informer, leaker, passive source, rat, squealer, whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistleblower |
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2. | informant (person) someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
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| Synonyms | witness, witnesser |
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| Broader (hypernym) | beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | attestant, attester, deponent, deposer, testifier |
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