Akademik

informant

noun

1. a person who supplies information (Freq. 1)

• Syn: ↑source

• Derivationally related forms: ↑inform

• Hypernyms: ↑communicator

• Hyponyms:

↑informer, ↑betrayer, ↑rat, ↑squealer, ↑blabber, ↑leaker, ↑passive source, ↑whistle blower, ↑whistle-blower, ↑whistleblower

2. someone who sees an event and reports what happened

• Syn: ↑witness, ↑witnesser

• Derivationally related forms: ↑inform, ↑witness (for: ↑witnesser), ↑witness (for: ↑witness)

• Hypernyms:

↑perceiver, ↑percipient, ↑observer, ↑beholder, ↑speaker, ↑talker, ↑utterer, ↑verbalizer, ↑verbaliser

• Hyponyms: ↑attester, ↑attestant, ↑testifier, ↑deponent, ↑deposer

Useful english dictionary. 2012.