Informant synonyms
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A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained:
One who, privy to the commission of a crime, confidentially communicates with the police or other governmental entity about it.
interviewee
Someone being interviewed; the recipient of an interview; usually, the one answering the questions.
native-speaker
A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.
local resident
An original or indigenous inhabitant of a region, as distinguished from an invader, explorer, colonist, etc.
qualified person
An informer, especially a police informer.
Any of numerous long-tailed rodents of various families (esp. Muridae and Cricetidae) resembling, but larger than, the mouse: rats are very destructive pests and carriers of highly contagious diseases, as bubonic plague and typhus
An informer
(Slang) A stool pigeon.
An informer or talebearer
A person who tattles; gossip or informer
One who gives incriminating information about others
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
A pigeon used as a decoy.
knowledge (related)
The state or fact of knowing:
law (related)
The branch of knowledge dealing with such rules; jurisprudence
witnesser
One who witnesses.
questionee
Find another word for informant. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for informant, like: source, witness, informer, subject, interviewee, native-speaker, local resident, native, qualified person, adviser and tipster.