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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Informant \In*form"ant\, noun [L. informans, -antis, p. pr. of informare. See {Inform}, verb (used with an object)]
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
2. One who imparts information or instruction.
3. One who offers an accusation; an informer. See {Informer}. [Obs. or R.]
It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
informant
noun
1: a person who supplies information [syn: {source}]
2: someone who sees an event and reports what happened [syn: {witness}, {witnesser}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "informant": 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
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