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Webster 1913 Edition
Informant
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
was hanged.
informant
was hanged.
Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Informant
INFORM'ANT
,Noun.
1.
One who offers an accusation. [See Informer, which is generally used.]Definition 2024
Informant
Informant
See also: informant
German
Noun
Informant m (genitive Informanten, plural Informanten)
Declension
Declension of Informant
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Informant | die | Informanten |
| genitive | eines | des | Informanten | der | Informanten |
| dative | einem | dem | Informanten | den | Informanten |
| accusative | einen | den | Informanten | die | Informanten |
Related terms
informant
informant
See also: Informant
English
Noun
informant (plural informants)
- One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
- (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
- 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
- The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
- 2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
- The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
- 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
Synonyms
- See Wikisaurus:informant
Translations
one who relays confidential information
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