informant

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ɪnˈfɔːrmənt/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ɪnˈfɔrmənt/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(in fôr′mənt)


WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
in•form•ant /ɪnˈfɔrmənt/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a person who informs or gives information, esp. secretly;
    an informer.
See -form-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
in•form•ant  (in fôr′mənt),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a person who informs or gives information;
    informer.
  2. Anthropology, Sociologya person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
  3. Linguisticsa native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.
  • Latin infōrmant- (stem of infōrmāns) present participle of infōrmāre. See inform1, -ant
  • 1655–65
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged source, adviser, tipster.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
informant / ɪnˈfɔːmənt/
  1. a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc
'informant' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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