Informant
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English
Noun
Informant (plural Informants)- One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
Synonyms
- (one who relays confidential information): blabber, gossip, narc, stool pigeon, tattletale, rat, canary, snitch, stoolie, squealer, grass, bigmouth
- See also Thesaurus:informant
Thesaurus
adviser, announcer, annunciator, attestant, attestator, attester, authority, bystander, channel, cojuror, communicant, communicator, compurgator, deponent, earwitness, enlightener, examinant, examinate, examinee, expert witness, eyewitness, gossipmonger, grapevine, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, monitor, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, passerby, press, public relations officer, publisher, questionee, quizzee, radio, reporter, source, spectator, spokesman, subject, swearer, television, teller, testifier, tipster, tout, voucher, witness
Translations
one who relays confidential information
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French
Verb
informant
- Present participle of informer.
Latin
Verb
īnfōrmant
- third-person plural present active indicative of īnfōrmō