informant

Plural: informants

Noun

• a person who supplies information
• someone who sees an event and reports what happened
• 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.

Synonyms

source, witness, witnesser, CI, abaddon, accuser, beefer, bewrayer, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongue, canary, finger, fink, fizgig, gossip, grass, informant, informer, jurat, leak, mole, narc, nark, nonce, outer, peacher, quisling, rat, ratfink, rooster, sneak, snitch, snout, squealer, state's evidence, stooge, stool pigeon, stoolie, supergrass, sycophant, tattler, tattletale, telltale, telltale tit, tout, whistleblower

Related Words

gossiper, name names, rat out